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This app lets you see IoT devices around you and what data they're taking:
A new app launched this week will let you know what internet of things technologies are operating around you and what data they are collecting. The Internet of Things Assistant app and its infrastructure, created by Carnegie Mellon researchers, aims to give you more control over the devices tracking your activity and information.
With the app, you'll be able to see devices like public cameras with facial recognition technology, Bluetooth beacons tracking your location at the mall, and your neighbor's smart doorbell or smart speaker, according to a story published by Carnegie Mellon's Security and Privacy Institute. You can see what data these devices collect, and access privacy choices like opting in and out of data collection when available.
[...] If you own an IoT device that operates in a public space, you can use an online portal to publish where your IoT devices are and what data they collect, so they can be added to the app's database.
"We've done the work for you," Sadeh said in the story. "All you need to do is start adding your IoT resources so you can be in compliance with today's privacy laws."
(Score: 4, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 24 2020, @01:46PM (7 children)
Do these "register your data with me so I can be the world's leading resource" schemes ever succeed?
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(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday February 24 2020, @03:11PM (2 children)
I've seen so many of these "all we need is a bunch of people and companies to do data entry for us for free", the only one I can ever remember to be truly successful was CDDB.
But even that one got ruined by greed.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 24 2020, @03:16PM
Yeah, that's a good example - I think there are still some music and lyric databases like that which are still pretty useful, and I suppose Wikipedia might be considered another rare - even unique - example. Greed does tend to collapse the effort, Wikipedia seems to teeter on the edge of extracting maximum value without losing too many users, and even they don't make much money considering their size and traffic volume.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday February 24 2020, @10:23PM
IMDB (now owned by Amazon, but it's a great database still)
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Thexalon on Monday February 24 2020, @06:10PM (3 children)
It worked for Google.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 24 2020, @08:34PM (1 child)
Google at least goes out and scrapes their content... but you have a point with YouTube.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday February 24 2020, @09:21PM
And Gmail. And Google Drive. And Google Calendar. And Google Docs. And Google Classroom. And a whole bunch of other projects that are about convincing users to give their data to Google without strings attached.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:32AM
It also worked for the founder of DuckDuckGo, who sold his Names Database for a good chunk of cash.
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