Monitoring and managing user privacy levels
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsGerard Gjonej, Ying Li
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsGerard Gjonej, Ying Li
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Various embodiments pertain to techniques for measuring a user's privacy level as a user interacts with various web services. In various embodiments, entities with which the user interacts are detected and sensitive information shared by the user is logged to determine what a given entity knows about the user. In some embodiments, sensitive information that is shared by a user can be processed using a predictive algorithm to ascertain a user's level of privacy. When a user's identity is predicted by the algorithm, a user can be alerted to the loss of anonymity. In various embodiments, user-defined areas of anonymity can be used to measure a user's definition of privacy. In some embodiments, alerts can also be provided to the user when a new, previously undisclosed, piece of information is shared by the user.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
One or more computer-readable storage media comprising instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a device, cause the device to perform operations comprising:
A device comprising:
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