The Programmable World and Its Emerging Privacy Nightmare

Abstract

So-called programmable world refers to a paradigm where we are surrounded by intelligent, programmable devices that communicate with each other to support us in our daily activities. Furthermore, these systems are intimately addressing data that we produce and consume, both as such as well as via machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). The fashion the data is treated in the network is a subject to regulatory, ethical and privacy concerns, however. In this paper, we study data and ML/AI related privacy concerns that emerge in the context of such programmable world, and how to take them into account when realizing the programmable world vision. In particular, we wish to enable composing systems so that constraints emerging from privacy concerns can be satisfied, but without risking the flexibility when composing complex networked systems, where data related operations are essential.