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posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 24 2020, @01:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the Quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes? dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 24 2020, @08:41PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday February 24 2020, @08:41PM (#961983)

    It's a special use case: onboard entertainment in a 30' (that's relatively small) yacht. Haven't watched over the air TV in forever, in theory we could stream Netflix or whatever from the cell phones but in practice we just pre-load movies and watch those. If it gets a lot of use I'll probably up the storage from 32GB to 512GB for ~$70. The other actually more common use case for the PiZeroW is for the screen to be off and play (recorded) music over Bluetooth - again, the cell phones could stream to Bluetooth, but I prefer playlists.

    If it proves reliable enough, I might look into getting some real-time marine/weather info into the screen, but for now it does what we want: keeps the kids entertained.

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