Sentence examples for privacy assistant from inspiring English sources

Privacy Assistant, a creation of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, uses machine learning to give users more control over the information that the apps on their Android phones collect.

But Norman Sadeh, a computer science professor who leads CMU's Personalized Privacy Assistant Project, hopes that a major tech company will eventually see the technology as a way to differentiate itself from its competitors, and pave the way for it to become a mainstream tool.

A user's answers to a few questions are enough to place them into one of a few like-minded "clusters". Privacy Assistant recommends data sharing settings pertaining to location information, contacts, messages, phone call data, and the phone's camera and microphone based on a profile of the group that best fits the user.

The privacy assistant can determine to which of these categories a person belongs.

If federal regulators continue to take a relatively hands-off approach to consumer privacy regulation, more people may turn to technologies like Privacy Assistant to help them maintain some level of control over their data (see "Welcome to Internet Privacy Limbo").

"Our challenge is to create a policy that strikes a balance, that promotes public safety, the safety of our officers and does not infringe on individual privacy rights," Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala told the Los Angeles Police Commission at the packed meeting.

Prior to that she served as assistant privacy commissioner of Canada for three years.

"You want to have a simple rollback mechanism, so once things are not what you expected them to be, you can get out quickly and not have to play a game of Whack-a-Mole," said Deirdre Mulligan, a privacy expert and assistant professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

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"We're only a couple of subpoenas away from standing at someone's door and handing them a summons," said EarthLink's Chief Privacy Officer and Assistant General Counsel Les Seagraves.

Elizabeth Denham, Canada's assistant privacy commissioner said, as reported by a Wall Street Journal blog.