Imagine A Nutrition Label—for Cybersecurity
As the Internet-of-Things proliferates, consumers want to know how their data will be used by the makers of devices—before they buy them. Imagine A Nutrition Label—for Cybersecurity
Your milk and orange juice have nutrition labels. Soon your refrigerator and coffee maker could, too.
For years, consumer privacy advocates have pushed the idea of so-called nutrition labels for devices. Instead of telling consumers how much vitamin B or C a product has, these labels would tell the prospective purchasers how their data will be used and by whom.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab Security and Privacy Institute are floating a working prototype of how such a label could look. They’re providing their label—vetted by researchers and numerous privacy experts—free of charge to Internet-of-Things, or IoT, device makers, standards organizations and others.
Discussions for adoption are still in the early stages. But advocates hope device makers will adopt this type of label, or that organizations such as Underwriters Laboratories, an independent safety-testing and certification company, or Consumer Reports will use at least portions of the label in their review processes, says Lorrie Cranor, the director and Bosch distinguished professor in security and privacy technologies at CyLab.
The label is designed to go on a product’s packaging or on the websites where the devices are sold. Products under consideration for carrying the label could include any smart device that is connected to the internet—including security cameras, refrigerators, speakers, home controllers, doorbells, toothbrushes, thermostats, light switches, smart plugs and much more, says Dr. Cranor, who is also a professor of computer science and a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon.
The idea of protecting data privacy becomes more of an issue as more products connect to the internet. On Dec. 8, Apple Inc. began requiring app developers to provide information about their applications’ privacy practices before submitting new apps and app updates to the App Store.
What’s more, consumer organizations are increasingly incorporating data privacy into their ratings, while some states have enacted, or are considering, privacy legislation. The Federal Trade Commission, which also has raised the concept of a nutrition label for privacy, says it continues to support the efforts of industry groups in this area.
Here’s A Closer Look At The Carnegie Mellon Label.
A Cyber-Label Guide
Privacy experts are floating a ‘nutrition label’ for Internet-connected devices. These labels could help consumers understand devices’ data-collection and security practices. Below is a proposed cyber label for a fictional device, a smart doorbell. Here’s what it tells consumers:
Related Articles:
Cybercriminals Attack GoDaddy-based Cryptocurrency Platforms
Biden Team Lacks Full U.S. Cybersecurity Support In Transition Fracas
Nasdaq To Buy Anti-Financial Crime Firm Verafin For $2.75 Billion
Mysterious Software Bugs Were Used To Hack iPhones and Android Phones and No One Will Talk About It
Dark Web Hackers Say They Hold Keys To 10,000 Robinhood Accounts #GotBitcoin
Hackers Steal $2.3 Million From Trump Wisconsin Campaign Account
Crypto Scammers Deface Trump Campaign Website One Week From Elections
Telecoms Protocol From 1975 Exploited To Target 20 Crypto Executives
With Traders Far From Offices, Banks Bring Surveillance To Homes
A Millionaire Hacker’s Lessons For Corporate America
Container Shipping Line CMA CGM Says Data Possibly Stolen In Cyberattack
Major Hospital System Hit With Cyberattack, Potentially Largest In U.S. History
Hacker Releases Information On Las Vegas-Area Students After Officials Don’t Pay Ransom
Russian Troll Farms Posing As African-American Support For Donald Trump
US Moves To Seize Cryptocurrency Accounts Linked To North Korean Heists
These Illicit SIM Cards Are Making Hacks Like Twitter’s Easier
Uber Exec Allegedly Concealed 2016 Hack With $100K BTC ‘Bug Bounty’ Pay-Off
Senate Panel’s Russia Probe Found Counterintelligence Risks In Trump’s 2016 Campaign
Bockchain Based Surveillance Camera Technology Detects Crime In Real-Time
Facebook Offers Money To Reel In TikTok Creators
How A Facebook Employee Helped Trump Win—But Switched Sides For 2020
Facebook Rebuffs Barr, Moves Ahead on Messaging Encryption
Facebook Ad Rates Fall As Coronavirus Undermines Ad Spending
Facebook Labels Trump Posts On Grounds That He’s Inciting Violence
Crypto Prediction Markets Face Competition From Facebook ‘Forecasts’ (#GotBitcoin?)
Coronavirus Is The Pin That Burst Facebook And Google Online Ads Business Bubble
OpenLibra Plans To Launch Permissionless Fork Of Facebook’s Stablecoin (#GotBitcoin?)
Facebook Warns Investors That Libra Stablecoin May Never Launch (#GotBitcoin?)
FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement (#GotBitcoin?)
How Facebook Coin’s Big Corporate Backers Will Profit From Crypto
Facebook’s Libra Is Bad For African Americans (#GotBitcoin?)
A Monumental Fight Over Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Is Coming (#GotBitcoin?)
Alert! 540 Million Facebook Users’ Data Exposed On Amazon Servers (#GotBitcoin?)
Facebook Bug Potentially Exposed Unshared Photos of Up 6.8 Million Users (#GotBitcoin?)
Facebook Says Millions of Users’ Passwords Were Improperly Stored in Internal Systems (#GotBitcoin?)
Advertisers Allege Facebook Failed to Disclose Key Metric Error For More Than A Year (#GotBitcoin?)
Ad Agency CEO Calls On Marketers To Take Collective Stand Against Facebook (#GotBitcoin?)
Thieves Can Now Nab Your Data In A Few Minutes For A Few Bucks (#GotBitcoin?)
New Crypto Mining Malware Beapy Uses Leaked NSA Hacking Tools: Symantec Research (#GotBitcoin?)
Equifax, FICO Team Up To Sell Your Financial Data To Banks (#GotBitcoin?)
Cyber-Security Alert!: FEMA Leaked Data Of 2.3 Million Disaster Survivors (#GotBitcoin?)
DMV Hacked! Your Personal Records Are Now Being Transmitted To Croatia (#GotBitcoin?)
Lithuanian Man Pleads Guilty In $100 Million Fraud Against Google, Facebook (#GotBitcoin?)
Hack Alert! Buca Di Beppo, Owned By Earl Enterprises Suffers Data Breach Of 2M Cards (#GotBitcoin?)
SEC Hack Proves Bitcoin Has Better Data Security (#GotBitcoin?)
Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) Rises As Banking Industry’s Overseer (#GotBitcoin?)
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.