"How Much Control Are People Willing to Grant to a Personal Privacy Assistant?"

The Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data are making it increasingly difficult for people to keep up with the various ways their data could be collected and processed. Therefore, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's security and privacy research institute, CyLab, is developing personalized privacy assistants (PPAs) to help users make decisions regarding privacy about the devices around them. The PPAs would be capable of letting users know what devices are around them, learning users' privacy preferences, and making privacy decisions on their behalf. The team conducted interviews to find out how comfortable people would be with autonomous PPAs. Participants were asked to share their opinions on three versions of PPAs at different levels of autonomy. This article continues to discuss the concept of PPAs and findings of the study that explored opinions on three increasingly autonomous versions of PPAs. 

CyLab reports "How Much Control Are People Willing to Grant to a Personal Privacy Assistant?"