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Mobile Privacy Information Proxy

Active Publication Date: 2015-09-24
FINJAN BLUE INC
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The invention provides a mobile device that can control when private data is transmitted from it based on its location. This makes users more comfortable using applications on their mobile devices with private data.

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Known mobile platforms employ proxy interceptors to monitor, filter, and change data sent from mobile devices, but the proxy interceptors lack a security management system that provides users with sufficient control over the transmission of sensitive data.

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[0050]An example of privacy rule 108 (see FIG. 1) is stored in the form of an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document, which includes the following tags:[0051] is the root tag of the privacy rule 108 (see FIG. 1)[0052] is a tag that includes the name of the privacy rule 108 (see FIG. 1)[0053] is a tag that includes a regular expression to be used while applying the privacy rule 108 (see FIG. 1) to data (see step 210, described below), which verifies that the data includes sensitive information based on the location of the mobile device 110-1 (see FIG. 1)[0054] is a tag that includes a category to which the privacy rule 108 (see FIG. 1) belongs, which specifies the type of the data to which the privacy rule 108 (see FIG. 1) is applied, and which has an attribute ‘policy-type’, which specifies the type of the category. For example, ‘email’ is a category which has the ‘policy-type’ of “sensitive private information.”[0055] is a tag that specifies a locale of users for whom the privac...

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An approach is provided for managing data being transmitted from a mobile device. The mobile device receives a request from a user to initiate a transmission of data. The mobile device determines whether the data includes sensitive information based on a format of the data, and if so, the mobile device determines a country in which the mobile device is currently located, determines a privacy policy of the country in which the mobile device is currently located, and determines whether the privacy policy applies to a type of the data corresponding to the format of the data; and if so, the mobile device notifies the user of the privacy policy of the country, identifies to the user the type of the data for which the privacy policy applies, and queries the user whether to transmit the data as requested by the user.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates generally to managing sensitive data, and more specifically to applying privacy policies to data sent from mobile devices.BACKGROUND[0002]Many applications for mobile devices (e.g., banking, collaboration, and social networking) transmit sensitive data. Known mobile platforms employ proxy interceptors to monitor, filter, and change data sent from mobile devices, but the proxy interceptors lack a security management system that provides users with sufficient control over the transmission of sensitive data.[0003]ExFILD: A Tool for the Detection of Data Exfiltration Using Entropy and Encryption Characteristics of Network Traffic by Tyrell William Fawcett, 2010 teaches a tool that determines the sensitivity of outbound data and alerts users when sensitive data is exiting a system by using entropy characteristics of network traffic.BRIEF SUMMARY[0004]A first embodiment of the present invention is a method, computer system and computer pr...

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IPC IPC(8): H04W12/02H04L29/06
CPCH04L63/20H04W12/02H04W12/64G06F21/6245H04L63/0281
Inventor ARUNACHALAM, KRISHNARAJANBIENER, ADAM S.JOSHI, SUNIL
Owner FINJAN BLUE INC