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PriBots: Conversational Privacy with Chatbots
Hamza Harkous, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Kassem Fawaz and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan; Karl Aberer, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Traditional mechanisms for delivering notice and enabling choice have so far failed to protect users' privacy. Users are continuously frustrated by complex privacy policies, unreachable privacy settings, and a multitude of emerging standards. The miniaturization trend of smart devices and the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoTs) will exacerbate this problem further. In this paper, we propose Conversational Privacy Bots (PriBots
) as a new way of delivering notice and choice through a two-way dialogue between the user and a computer agent (a chatbot). PriBots
improve on state-of-the-art by offering users a more intuitive and natural interface to inquire about their privacy settings, thus allowing them to control their privacy. In addition to presenting the potential applications of PriBots
, we describe the underlying system needed to support their functionality. We also delve into the challenges associated with delivering privacy as an automated service. PriBots
have the potential for enabling the use of chatbots in other related fields where users need to be informed or to be put in control.
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author = {Hamza Harkous and Kassem Fawaz and Kang G. Shin and Karl Aberer},
title = {{PriBots}: Conversational Privacy with Chatbots},
booktitle = {Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2016)},
year = {2016},
address = {Denver, CO},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/workshop-program/wfpn/presentation/harkous},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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