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AssigneeNcc Group Security Services, Inc.
InventorsRohyt Belani, Aaron Higbee
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Methods and systems for evaluating and rating privacy risks posed by applications intended for deployment on mobile platforms. Validating the “intent” of a mobile platform application vis-à-vis its impact on user privacy, as viewed from an end-user's perspective allows those end-users to make better-informed decisions concerning the downloading, installation and/or operation of mobile platform applications. In making such assessments user preferences can be taken into account. Privacy scores are provided through sales channels for the applications, thereby affording potential users the opportunity to assess whether they wish to incur the associated privacy risk, before purchasing a subject application.
A method, comprising:
A method, comprising evaluating, by a first computer system, a risk to privacy of a user of a second computer system, when said second computer system executes an application, said risk to privacy determined according to an evaluation of the application's intended purpose in light of functionality provided by the second computer system to be accessed by the application when executing on the second computer system;
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