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Access-control tool for personal stuff knows 'private' can mean 'it's complicated' |
February 22, 2014
Think about it: Who should be allowed to see photos of you drunk?Now: Who should be able to see your “very drunk” pictures?Enterprises have had sophisticated access-control tools for a long time. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina have now developed a way to apply fine-grained controls to the most sensitive data of all: your personal stuff.The system, called Penumbra, is based on software that runs in the file system. Penumbra lets consumers apply tags to their content and set policies about who can access files based on those tags. The policies can also use automatically generated tags, such as those based on face recognition. The researchers’ prototype system ran on a set of Linux desktops on a LAN, but it could also be implemented across tablets, smartphones and other devices. And the sweet spot for Penumbra could be cloud-based storage services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2100380/accesscontrol-tool-for-personal-stuff-knows-private-can-mean-its-complicated.html#tk.rss_all
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