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US 2020/0349280 A1Published application
Privacy policy rating system
AssigneeEarly Warning Services, LLC
InventorMichael Cook
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Abstract
A system includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine a privacy policy score for one of an application and a website and provide the privacy policy score to a device.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory accessible to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:
- automatically determining, at a privacy policy analysis system (PPAS), a privacy policy score for a website based on an automatic semantic analysis of text of a privacy policy associated with the website;
- receiving at the PPAS, from a user at a user device, user preferences that reflect a relative importance of at least one of one or more privacy policy characteristics to that user;
- customizing, at the PPAS, the privacy policy score based on the user preferences of that user;
- determining, at the PPAS, that the privacy policy score is below a threshold value;
- blocking, at the user device, access to the website based on the privacy policy score falling below the threshold value;
- detecting, at the PPAS, a change in the text of the privacy policy associated with the website after the privacy policy score is determined;
- automatically determining, at the PPAS, an updated privacy policy score based on the change in the text of the privacy policy;
- customizing, at the PPAS, the updated privacy policy score based on the user preferences of the user;
- determining, at the PPAS, that the updated privacy policy score is not below the threshold value;
- and
- unblocking, at the user device, access to the website based on the updated privacy policy score not being below the threshold value.
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A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of a gateway device, including instructions configured to cause one or more data processors to perform operations including:
- automatically determining, at a privacy policy analysis system (PPAS), a privacy policy score for a website based on an automatic semantic analysis of text of a privacy policy associated with the website;
- receiving at the PPAS, from a user at a user device, user preferences that reflect a relative importance of at least one of one or more privacy policy characteristics to that user;
- customizing, at the PPAS, the privacy policy score based on the user preferences of that user;
- determining, at the PPAS, that the privacy policy score i s below a threshold value;
- blocking, at the user device, access to the website based on the privacy policy score falling below the threshold value;
- detecting, at the PPAS, a change in the text of the privacy policy associated with the web site after the privacy policy score is determined;
- automatically determining, at the PPAS, an updated privacy policy score based on the change in the text of the privacy policy;
- customizing, at the PPAS, the updated privacy policy score based on the user preferences of the user;
- determining, at the PPAS, that the updated privacy policy score is not below the threshold value;
- and
- unblocking, at the user device, access to the website based on the updated privacy policy score not being below the threshold value.
8 more elements
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- automatically determining, at a privacy policy analysis system (PPAS), a privacy policy score for a website based on an automatic semantic analysis of text of a privacy policy associated with the website;
- receiving at the PPAS, from a user at a user device, user preferences that reflect a relative importance of at least one of one or more privacy policy characteristics to that user;
- customizing, at the PPAS, the privacy policy score based on the user preferences of that user;
- determining, at the PPAS, that the privacy policy score is below a threshold value;
- blocking, at the user device, access to the website based on the privacy policy score falling below the threshold value;
- detecting, at the PPAS, a change in the text of the privacy policy associated with the website after the privacy policy score is determined;
- automatically determining, at the PPAS, an updated privacy policy score based on the change in the text of the privacy policy;
- customizing, at the PPAS, the updated privacy policy score based on the user preferences of the user;
- determining, at the PPAS, that the updated privacy policy score is not below the threshold value;
- and
- unblocking, at the user device, access to the website based on the updated privacy policy score not being below the threshold value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.