DATA PRIVACY MANAGER (DPM)

INSPIRATION

Smartphone plays a vital role in our day to day life that begins from various fitness apps to track the distance travelled, speed and calories burned using GPS and extends up to managing corporate resources on a single click at your personal device to save crucial time. This can boost the society’s productivity while providing a path to competitors for harnessing data. Application producers can get to your camera, microphone, location and file, pretty much every snippet of data that is delicate for any end-client. Individuals wilfully offered it to them. Individuals don't comprehend who is behind these applications and how they can manage individuals' information, thus they deliberately give their information to such applications in any event, when they shouldn't. This is the issue that inspired us to create this project.

WHAT IT DOES

Our project basically controls till what extent an application can access your data even after getting the permission to access it. Our project adds extra options to the settings and gives the users some extra options to control what all information the app can access. For eg if the app asks for permission to access messages, you can choose the option to allow the app to only access commercial messages and restrict access to messages containing OTPs.

WORKING

So lets start with the working of this project. As the concept is based on privacy , we do not aim to create a special app for this purpose. Instead create an option inside the settings of our device itself. Using JAVA as our programming language, we would edit our Android system in the Android kitchen , the same way in which we can develop custom ROMs . Now lets start how this would work. 1. Let us suppose that you are using any xyz application and this application requests you to access permission to your gallery . But you do not wish to give access to your entire gallery but to only some pictures . 2. The first option in the pop-up would be basically asking whether you want to give any permission or not. Even if you want to give permission to a single picture, click on ALLOW . 3. Now the next option in the pop-up would be asking you to choose the limit to which you want to share .You get 2 options here. Either choose to select from an existing gallery or to create a new gallery for this purpose. 4. Let us consider you choose the “existing gallery” option . The next pop-up would then have the list of all the galleries that you have created. This will also have the option to grant access to full gallery. You can choose gallery accordingly. 5. If you choose the option of creating a new gallery , the next pop-up would be having the options like add pictures to new gallery, name this gallery. There would also be an option to select whether to save this gallery after you close the application or destroy it as soon as application is closed.

For details, please refer to the ppt we uploaded at the google drive. Link for the same is provided at the end.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Team 10

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