CryptoCam: Privacy Conscious Open Circuit Television
This addresses privacy and trust issues for individuals monitored by security cameras, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing encryption and access control concepts.
The paper tackles the asymmetry of control in CCTV by proposing CryptoCam, a system for secure video sharing using point-of-capture encryption and time-based access keys, aiming to provide data equity and oversight to subjects.
The prevalence of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) in today's society has given rise to an inherent asymmetry of control between the watchers and the watched. A sense of unease relating to the unobservable observer (operator) often leads to a lack of trust in the camera and its purpose, despite security cameras generally being present as a protective device. In this paper, we detail our concept of Open Circuit Television and prototype CryptoCam, a novel system for secure sharing of video footage to individuals and potential subjects nearby. Utilizing point-of-capture encryption and wireless transfer of time-based access keys for footage, we have developed a system to encourage a more open approach to information sharing and consumption. Detailing concerns highlighted in existing literature we formalize our over-arching concept into a framework called Open Circuit Television (OCTV). Through CryptoCam we hope to address this asymmetry of control by providing subjects with data equity, discoverability and oversight.