Social network privacy auditor
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsSandilya Bhamidipati, Nadia Fawaz
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Abstract
A privacy auditor determines discrepancies between user privacy settings in a social network and installed applications. The privacy auditor can employ a privacy determinator that tests an installed application on various privacy levels to determine actual privacy settings of the installed application. The privacy auditor then uses a privacy comparator to derive differences between the actual privacy settings of the installed application and the user privacy settings from the social network.
Claims14
A system that evaluates privacy settings, comprising:
- a privacy determinator that determines data access levels of an application associated with a social network;
- and
- a privacy comparator that compares social network privacy settings of a user of the social network to the determined data access levels.
The system of claim I, wherein the social network privacy settings are based on at least one of user settings, social network settings, social network default settings and combinations of user settings and social network settings.
A method for evaluating privacy settings, comprising:
- building a network of interconnected user accounts with degrees of association to a primary user, the network based on user accounts from a social network;
- obtaining privacy levels for data types and association degrees between the primary user and other users;
- creating privacy data testers at various nodes in the social network to test data access by other entities;
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- comparing data retrieved by the privacy data testers to data authorized to be accessible according to specified privacy levels of the primary user of the social network.
A system that determines data privacy discrepancies, comprising:
- a means for determining data access levels of an application associated with a social network;
- and
- a means for comparing social network privacy settings of a user of the social network to the determined data access levels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.