Safeguarding confidential information during a screen share session

A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory tangible storage device having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor of a computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

• summarizing shared content to be displayed by one or more applications;
• expanding the summarized content to full content during a screen share with a second computer;
• reverting the full content back to the summarized content upon detecting a user is away from the second computer;
• replacing the summarized content with a code name when the second computer is engaged in a different screen sharing session,
• wherein the code name is based on a communication history between the first computer and the second computer;
• receiving, by the second computer, the summarized content shared by the one or more applications;
• and
• displaying, by the second computer, the summarized content.

A computer system, comprising:

• one or more computer devices each having one or more processors and one or more tangible storage devices;
• and
• a program embodied on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the program having a plurality of program instructions for execution by the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising instructions for:
• summarizing shared content to be displayed by one or more applications;
• expanding the summarized content to full content during a screen share with a second computer;
• reverting the full content back to the summarized content upon detecting a user is away from the second computer;
• replacing the summarized content with a code name when the second computer is engaged in a different screen sharing session,
• wherein the code name is based on a communication history between the first computer and the second computer;
• receiving, by the second computer, the summarized content shared by the one or more applications;
• and
• displaying, by the second computer, the summarized content.