pix19;Box: A Platform for Privacy-Preserving Apps

Abstract

We present Box, a new application platform that prevents apps from misusing information about their users. To strike a useful balance between users privacy and apps functional needs, piBox shifts much of the responsibility for protecting privacy from the app and its users to the platform itself. To achieve this, Box deploys (1) a sandbox that spans the users device and the cloud, (2) specialized storage and communication channels that enable common app functionalities, and (3) an adaptation of recent theoretical algorithms for differential privacy under continual observation. We describe a prototype implementation of Box and show how it enables a wide range of useful apps with minimal performance overhead and without sacricing user privacy

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 03, 2012
Accession Number
AD1024618

Entities

People

  • Deepak Goel
  • Edmund L. Wong
  • Mike Dahlin
  • Sangmin Lee
  • Vitaly Shmatikov

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Biometric Security
  • Cloud Computing
  • Coding
  • Color Coding
  • Communication Channels
  • Computations
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Media
  • Mobile Operating Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Security
  • Security Protocols
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Standards
  • Web Applications
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

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