Most consumers do not think about what happens to the data collected by their favorite smart home devices. A smart device that removes personally identifiable information (PII) before sensitive data is sent to private servers will be a far safer product than what we currently have.
The Roomba incident represents data over-collection and unauthorized sharing, highlighting the need for enhanced privacy protection in smart devices.
University of Michigan engineers have filed a provisional patent for PrivacyLens, a camera that can detect people in images based on body temperature and replace their likenesses with generic figures.
Privacy concerns in the digital age extend beyond personal home devices to public applications like autonomous vehicles and security cameras, indicating the importance of privacy-enhancing technologies like PrivacyLens.
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