What You See is What They Get: Protecting users from unwanted use of microphones, cameras, and other sensors

摘要: Sensors such as cameras and microphones collect privacy-sensitive data streams without the user’s explicit action. Conventional sensor access policies either hassle users to grant applications sensors or with no approval at all. Once is granted, an application may even after application’s interface suggests that longer being accessed. We introduce sensor-access widget, a graphical user element resides within display. The widget provides animated representation of personal collected by its corresponding sensor, calling attention attempt data. indicates whether currently allowed flow application. also acts control point through which can configure deny access. By building perpetual disclosure collection into platform, widgets enable new access-control relax tension between privacy needs applications’ ease