Hey kimya, is my smart speaker spying on me? taking control of sensor privacy through isolation and amnesia

P De Vaere, A Perrig - 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX …, 2023 - usenix.org
Although smart speakers and other voice assistants are becoming increasingly ubiquitous,
their always-standby nature continues to prompt significant privacy concerns. To address …

Viola: Trustworthy sensor notifications for enhanced privacy on mobile systems

S Mirzamohammadi, A Amiri Sani - Proceedings of the 14th Annual …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Modern mobile systems such as smartphones, tablets, and wearables contain a plethora of
sensors such as camera, microphone, GPS, and accelerometer. Moreover, being mobile …

Powering for privacy: improving user trust in smart speaker microphones with intentional powering and perceptible assurance

Y Do, N Arora, A Mirzazadeh, I Moon, E Xu… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Smart speakers come with always-on microphones to facilitate voice-based interaction. To
address user privacy concerns, existing devices come with a number of privacy features: eg …

Privacy controls for always-listening devices

N Malkin, S Egelman, D Wagner - Proceedings of the New Security …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) and other voice-enabled devices already form an integral
component of the Internet of Things and will continue to grow in popularity. As their …

" Alexa, stop spying on me!" speech privacy protection against voice assistants

K Sun, C Chen, X Zhang - Proceedings of the 18th conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants (VAs) are becoming highly popular recently as a general means of
interacting with the Internet of Things. However, the use of always-on microphones on VAs …

Defending against microphone-based attacks with personalized noise

Y Liu, Z Xiang, EJ Seong, A Kapadia… - … on Privacy Enhancing …, 2021 - petsymposium.org
Voice-activated commands have become a key feature of popular devices such as
smartphones, home assistants, and wearables. For convenience, many people configure …

Poster: Inaudible voice commands

L Song, P Mittal - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants like Siri enable us to control IoT devices conveniently with voice
commands, however, they also provide new attack opportunities for adversaries. Previous …

The Smart Speaker Blocker: An Open-Source Privacy Filter for Connected Home Speakers

I Olade, C Champion, H Liang, C Fleming - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The popularity and projected growth of in-home smart speaker assistants, such as Amazon's
Echo, has raised privacy concerns among consumers and privacy advocates. Notable …

Privacy protection for audio sensing against multi-microphone adversaries

C Gao, K Fawaz, S Sur, S Banerjee - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2019 - petsymposium.org
Audio-based sensing enables fine-grained human activity detection, such as sensing hand
gestures and contact-free estimation of the breathing rate. A passive adversary, equipped …

Speechless: Analyzing the threat to speech privacy from smartphone motion sensors

SA Anand, N Saxena - 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
According to recent research, motion sensors available on current smartphone platforms
may be sensitive to speech signals. From a security and privacy perspective, this raises a …