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| author | Nair, Vivek Miller, Mark Roman Wang, Rui Huang, Brandon Rack, Christian Latoschik, Marc Erich O'Brien, James F. |
| author_facet | Nair, Vivek Miller, Mark Roman Wang, Rui Huang, Brandon Rack, Christian Latoschik, Marc Erich O'Brien, James F. |
| contents | The use of virtual and augmented reality devices is increasing, but these sensor-rich devices pose risks to privacy. The ability to track a user's motion and infer the identity or characteristics of the user poses a privacy risk that has received significant attention. Existing deep-network-based defenses against this risk, however, require significant amounts of training data and have not yet been shown to generalize beyond specific applications. In this work, we study the effect of signal degradation on identifiability, specifically through added noise, reduced framerate, reduced precision, and reduced dimensionality of the data. Our experiment shows that state-of-the-art identification attacks still achieve near-perfect accuracy for each of these degradations. This negative result demonstrates the difficulty of anonymizing this motion data and gives some justification to the existing data- and compute-intensive deep-network based methods. |
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| spellingShingle | Effect of Data Degradation on Motion Re-Identification Nair, Vivek Miller, Mark Roman Wang, Rui Huang, Brandon Rack, Christian Latoschik, Marc Erich O'Brien, James F. Cryptography and Security Human-Computer Interaction The use of virtual and augmented reality devices is increasing, but these sensor-rich devices pose risks to privacy. The ability to track a user's motion and infer the identity or characteristics of the user poses a privacy risk that has received significant attention. Existing deep-network-based defenses against this risk, however, require significant amounts of training data and have not yet been shown to generalize beyond specific applications. In this work, we study the effect of signal degradation on identifiability, specifically through added noise, reduced framerate, reduced precision, and reduced dimensionality of the data. Our experiment shows that state-of-the-art identification attacks still achieve near-perfect accuracy for each of these degradations. This negative result demonstrates the difficulty of anonymizing this motion data and gives some justification to the existing data- and compute-intensive deep-network based methods. |
| title | Effect of Data Degradation on Motion Re-Identification |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18378 |