"Peekaboo! Here's a System to Guarantee Smart Home Privacy"

A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab developed a new privacy-sensitive architecture for developers building smart home apps. The architecture, which the team refers to as "Peekaboo," takes requests from developers to share certain pieces of data and ensures only the essential data pieces are shared with them to fulfill their request. Developers use the Peekaboo architecture to declare all of the data they intend to collect and under what conditions, where that data is being sent, and the granularity of the data itself. Then, an in-home hub acts as a bridge between all of the devices in the home and the outside Internet. The hub enforces sharing data only declared by the developer. The Peekaboo protocol will enable users to manage privacy preferences for all of their devices in a centralized way via the hub. This article continues to discuss the concept and goals of CyLab's new privacy-sensitive Peekaboo architecture. 

CyLab reports "Peekaboo! Here's a System to Guarantee Smart Home Privacy"