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Smart Speaker Privacy Control - Acoustic Tagging for Personal Voice Assistants
Univ Lancaster, England.
Univ Lancaster, England.
Linköping University.
Univ Coll Cork, Ireland.
2019 (English)In: 2019 IEEE SECURITY AND PRIVACY WORKSHOPS, SPW, IEEE COMPUTER SOC , 2019, p. 144-149Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Personal Voice Assistants (PVAs) such as the Siri, Amazon Echo and Google Home are now commonplace. PVAs continuously monitor conversations which may be transported to a cloud back end where they are stored, processed and maybe even passed on to other service providers. A user has little control over this process. She is unable to control the recording behaviour of surrounding PVAs, unable to signal her privacy requirements to back-end systems and unable to track conversation recordings. In this paper we explore techniques for embedding additional information into acoustic signals processed by PVAs. A user employs a tagging device which emits an acoustic signal when PVA activity is assumed. Any active PVA will embed this tag into their recorded audio stream. The tag may signal a cooperating PVA or back-end system that a user has not given a recording consent. The tag may also be used to trace when and where a recording was taken. We discuss different tagging techniques and application scenarios, and we describe the implementation of a prototype tagging device based on PocketSphinx. Using the popular PVA Google Home Mini we demonstrate that the device can tag conversations and that the tagging signal can be retrieved from conversations stored in the Google back-end system.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE COMPUTER SOC , 2019. p. 144-149
Series
IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops, ISSN 2639-7862
Keywords [en]
Smart Speakers; Personal Voice Assistants; Virtual Assistants; Voice Controllable Systems; Signal Tagging; Wake Word Detection; Acoustic Privacy; IoT Security and Privacy
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Computer Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-209765DOI: 10.1109/SPW.2019.00035ISI: 001324833400022ISBN: 9781728135083 (electronic)ISBN: 9781728135090 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-209765DiVA, id: diva2:1913469
Conference
40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, may 19-23, 2019
Note

Funding Agencies|CONNECT the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for future networks and communications; Wallenberg Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) - Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden

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