We need to be more responsible and have the right to live in a more safe and secure world where our Privacy is not violated. Even after working for a decade in experimenting and implementing different privacy methods, we are still failing and have way more to go!
My first international conference talk grew from an uncomfortable fact: supposedly anonymous spatial behavior can still reveal a person. The way someone navigates, pauses, turns, and responds contains more identity than most users would reasonably expect.
I was excited to present, but also aware of the responsibility behind the claim. Privacy research is not only about demonstrating that identification is possible. It is about asking what we should collect, what protections actually hold, and how we can keep the benefits of immersive analytics without normalizing invisible profiling.
Based on our work “Privacy Concerns from variances in spatial navigability: Hidden dimensions of functional user profiling and it’s safe guarding”, we are presenting at IEEE VR 2023 and I’m so excited to talk in my first International conference.
Thank you Dr. Basu for giving me this opportunity.
This is still one of the threads running through almost everything I build: useful technology should not require people to surrender more of themselves than the experience truly needs. Privacy is not a final checkbox. It is part of the product architecture.