Privaros: A Framework for Privacy-Compliant Delivery Drones
This addresses privacy compliance for drone delivery services, but it is incremental as it builds on existing middleware like ROS.
The authors tackled the problem of enforcing diverse privacy policies on commercial delivery drones operating across multiple host airspaces, and showed that Privaros robustly enforces policies with only marginal increases in latency and power consumption.
We present Privaros, a framework to enforce privacy policies on drones. Privaros is designed for commercial delivery drones, such as the ones that will likely be used by Amazon Prime Air. Such drones visit a number of host airspaces, each of which may have different privacy requirements. Privaros provides an information flow control framework to enforce the policies of these hosts on the guest delivery drones. The mechanisms in Privaros are built on top of ROS, a middleware popular in many drone platforms. This paper presents the design and implementation of these mechanisms, describes how policies are specified, and shows that Privaros's policy specification can be integrated with India's Digital Sky portal. Our evaluation shows that a drone running Privaros can robustly enforce various privacy policies specified by hosts, and that its core mechanisms only marginally increase communication latency and power consumption.