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Firefox is removing the battery status API, citing privacy concerns. Here’s the paper that described those concerns: Abstract. We highlight privacy risks associated with the HTML5 Battery Status API. We put special focus on its implementation in the Fi… Continue reading Firefox Removing Battery Status API
Firefox is removing the battery status API, citing privacy concerns. Here’s the paper that described those concerns: Abstract. We highlight privacy risks associated with the HTML5 Battery Status API. We put special focus on its implementation in the Fi… Continue reading Firefox Removing Battery Status API
Firefox is removing the battery status API, citing privacy concerns. Here’s the paper that described those concerns: Abstract. We highlight privacy risks associated with the HTML5 Battery Status API. We put special focus on its implementation in the Firefox browser. Our study shows that websites can discover the capacity of users’ batteries by exploiting the high precision readouts provided by… Continue reading Firefox Removing Battery Status API
If I take a photograph with a smartphone camera, how much information is there that could be used to identify the owner? I know of Exif tags and that all cameras have slight manufacturing variations that are (citation needed) able to be di… Continue reading How much identifying information is in a photograph?
Neural networks are good at identifying faces, even if they’re blurry: In a paper released earlier this month, researchers at UT Austin and Cornell University demonstrate that faces and objects obscured by blurring, pixelation, and a recently-proposed privacy system called P3 can be successfully identified by a neural network trained on image datasets — in some cases at a more… Continue reading Using Neural Networks to Identify Blurred Faces
Neural networks are good at identifying faces, even if they’re blurry: In a paper released earlier this month, researchers at UT Austin and Cornell University demonstrate that faces and objects obscured by blurring, pixelation, and a recently-proposed privacy system called P3 can be successfully identified by a neural network trained on image datasets — in some cases at a more… Continue reading Using Neural Networks to Identify Blurred Faces
Another paper on using Wi-Fi for surveillance. This one is on identifying people by their body shape. “FreeSense:Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals”: Abstract: Human identification plays an important role in human-computer interaction. There have been numerous methods proposed for human identification (e.g., face recognition, gait recognition, fingerprint identification, etc.). While these methods could be very useful under different conditions,… Continue reading Using Wi-Fi Signals to Identify People by Body Shape
Another paper on using Wi-Fi for surveillance. This one is on identifying people by their body shape. "FreeSense:Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals": Abstract: Human identification plays an important role in human-computer interaction. There have been numerous methods proposed for human identification (e.g., face recognition, gait recognition, fingerprint identification, etc.). While these methods could be very useful under different conditions,… Continue reading Using Wi-Fi Signals to Identify People by Body Shape
I’ve been comissioned to use TPM to add a licensing system to an existing software project. The idea is to use TPM to uniquely identify the computer (that runs GNU/Linux, probably CentOS/RHEL/Fedora) so that the license file … Continue reading How to use TPM to identify a computer for licensing purposes?
Interesting paper: “Anonymization and Risk,” by Ira S. Rubinstein and Woodrow Hartzog: Abstract: Perfect anonymization of data sets has failed. But the process of protecting data subjects in shared information remains integral to privacy practice and policy. While the deidentification debate has been vigorous and productive, there is no clear direction for policy. As a result, the law has been… Continue reading Anonymization and the Law