TY  - EJOU
AU  - Yocam, Eric 
AU  - Alomari, Ahmad 
AU  - Gawanmeh, Amjad 
AU  - Mansoor, Wathiq 

TI  - A Privacy-Preserving System Design for Digital Presence Protection
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2023
VL  - 75
IS  - 2
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - A person’s privacy has become a growing concern, given the nature of an expansive reliance on real-time video activities with video capture, stream, and storage. This paper presents an innovative system design based on a privacy-preserving model. The proposed system design is implemented by employing an enhanced capability that overcomes today’s single parameter-based access control protection mechanism for digital privacy preservation. The enhanced capability combines multiple access control parameters: facial expression, resource, environment, location, and time. The proposed system design demonstrated that a person’s facial expressions combined with a set of access control rules can achieve a person’s privacy-preserving preferences. The findings resulted in different facial expressions successfully triggering a person’s face to be blurred and a person’s privacy when using a real-time video conferencing service captured from a webcam or virtual webcam. A comparison analysis of capabilities between existing designs and the proposed system design shows enhancement of the capabilities of the proposed system. A series of experiments exercising the enhanced, real-time multi-parameter-based system was shown as a viable path forward for preserving a person’s privacy while using a webcam or virtual webcam to capture, stream, and store videos.
KW  - Attribute-based access control; authentication; authorization; biometrics; facial recognition; identity; privacy; machine learning; deep learning

DO  - 10.32604/cmc.2023.032826