Effect of Data Degradation on Motion Re-Identification
arXiv:2407.18378 · doi:10.1109/WoWMoM60985.2024.00026
Abstract
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.
arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures, presented at the SePAR (Security and Privacy in Mixed, Virtual, and Augmented Realities) workshop, co-located with WoWMoM 2024 in Perth, Australia
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