thegoldeneye

ABSTRACT The ubiquity of internet enabled smartphones enables us to always remain connected. Applications on mobile phones such as Facebook, Twitter, etc provide us a convenient way of keeping in touch with our family and friends. But at the same time, these very applications are also a source of a wealth of private information. Previous studies 1 have shown that sharing of mobile phones is very prevalent. This raises a number of privacy concerns. In order to protect users’ privacy concerns, we propose GoldenEye, a face recognition based authentication system for smartphone applications. GoldenEye is an additional layer between the application and the users’ login credentials which recognizes the current phone user by taking their picture and the application is allowed to use the credentials only if the current user is authorized by the phone owner.