88 results about "Privacy management" patented technology

A method and system for providing location based presence status and enhancing location privacy management in a mobile, instant messaging or social networking environment. A user specifies or saves their favorite locations (e.g. home, work, school, or particular business or point of interest locations), and specifies or selects names and/or categories to be shared for each user-specified location. In addition, the system provides multiple sharing levels for sharing multiple types of location contextual information. When user's current location corresponds to user-specified locations, location based presence status is provided to specified contacts according to the sharing level settings, and provides user the option to share location contextual information without sharing location coordinates of the user. When user is driving, location based presence status is updated accordingly, and when user is at other business or POI locations, corresponding location contextual information is shared based on user's settings for each sharing level.

A method for privacy management includes providing a linked collection of interactive resources through which a user is able to exchange information with an enterprise that provides the resources, and assigning respective, non-uniform privacy policies to at least some of the resources regarding use of the information that is exchanged through the resources. The user, accessing a given one of the resources, is provided with the respective privacy policy for that resource. At least a portion of the information that is associated with the given one of the resources is exchanged with the user subject to the provided privacy policy.

By applying a privacy policy, which describes and manages a policy for disclosure of preference information, to the preference information, it is determined whether or not to disclose some or all of the information to a third party based on classification as a result of matching by a matching system. The description of a privacy policy makes it possible to achieve a meaningful communication by disclosing preference information to others within a detailed range while keeping the preference information undisclosed if the user does not wish disclosure thereof, such as disclosing only preference information including preferences matching those of the other user or disclosing only preference information including preferences shared in a certain user group.

This invention relates to a system and method to generate a private, auditable, evidentiary quality record of the location-history of an asset or person. This invention addresses ten critical improvements over existing systems that are proposed or used for metering for payment services for tolling roads, parking or pay-as-you-drive insurance, namely, cost-effective location accuracy in harsh signal environments, evidentiary assurance of location estimation, handling of dynamic and stationary positioning in a single device, high-ratio compression for a set of stationary positions in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a dynamic tracklog in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a set of asset motion behaviors, a method of remote device health check, including anti-tampering, removal of residual price assignment errors, anonymous use without on-board maps, and a method of deconsolidating payments to multiple payees with multiple payment regimes. This system can be applied to road-pricing, congestion-pricing, metered-by-the-minute parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance, incorporating privacy management, and legal admissibility of the evidentiary record. This same device can also be applied to vehicular fleets, military ordinance, or other location audits for assets whether motorized or not, as might be needed in evidence of contract fulfillment or other forms of non-realtime geofencing audits.

A computer implemented method describes managing privacy information. Initially, a request is received from a requester for the privacy information of an entity. The request is often the result of an applicant submitting a form or application to the requester. Next, implementations of the present invention create a privacy transaction in a database for the privacy information including one or more identity qualities from the applicant and one or more characteristics for the submission. These identity qualities, characteristics for the submission and other pieces of information are used to score the privacy transaction according to the one or more identity qualities from the applicant and the one or more characteristics for the submission. The score provides a confidence level indicative of the authenticity and authorization associated with the submission.

Systems and methods for processing and managing health care data records in a manner, which ensures compliance with privacy regulations governing the presence of personally identifiable information throughout all data management processes of an organization. The systems and methods involve use of a secure preprocessing environment to audit health care data records received from suppliers, to verify compliance and to encode non-compliant data fields in the data records. Encoding parameters that allow longitudinal linkability of the data records by individual are selected to replace personally identifiable information in the non-compliant data fields.

When sending personal data to a recipient, the data owner encrypts the data using both a public data item provided by a trusted party and an encryption key string formed using at least policy data indicative of conditions to be satisfied before access is given to the personal data. The encryption key string is typically also provided to the recipient along with the encrypted personal data. To decrypt the personal data, the recipient sends the encryption key string to the trusted party with a request for the decryption key. The trusted party determines the required decryption key using the encryption key string and private data used in deriving its public data, and provides it to the requesting recipient. However, the decryption key is either not determined or not made available until the trusted party is satisfied that the associated policy conditions have been met by the recipient.

A method for monitoring physiological conditions of a particular individual, while providing unobtrusively implemented controls for managing the privacy of the particular individual and their physiological data, including providing a set of personal data regarding the particular individual, the personal data including privacy settings data, wellness parameter data, or semantic data; determining initial values for the wellness parameters for the particular individual; unobtrusively acquiring physiological data of the particular individual from an image captured during an image capture event, wherein the image capture and image data management is in accordance with a privacy setting; analyzing the physiological data using wellness parameters to assess physiological conditions of the particular individual; and providing a report of the physiological conditions of the particular individual, where the reporting access is limited by privacy controls based on the privacy setting.

The system and method obscures descriptive image information about one or more images. The system comprises a selector for selecting the descriptive image information from one or more of the images, a transformer that transforms the descriptive information into a transformed state, and an authorizer that provides authorization criteria with the image. In a preferred embodiment, the transformed state is the respective image encoded with the descriptive information. The descriptive information can be obscured so that the descriptive information in the transformed state can be decoded only if one or more authorization inputs satisfy the authorization criteria.

A system architecture is disclosed that includes a privacy management system.

Systems and methods for dynamic privacy management are disclosed. In some embodiments, a customer may accept or reject using the text-messaging feature of his mobile phone offers of discounted goods or services from a partner in exchange for the customer's consent allowing the vendor to release the customer's personal information to the vendor. By controlling dissemination of his personal information in this way, a customer may tailor his own dynamic privacy agreement with the provider in an informal manner and with very little effort. The customer may also control the amount of spam he receives from vendors by specifying the types of offers he is or is not receptive to.

An apparatus for privacy management may include a processor. The processor may be configured to access one or more privacy options. In this regard, each privacy option may be configured to provide members of one or more groups access to content. The processor may also be configured to provide for selection of a privacy option in association with the content. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided.

A telephone system for enhanced privacy management includes a telephone switch, a rejected call handler, a user preference database, and an internet app privacy manager, whereby an incoming call can be assigned to a calling class, and routed according to a calling rule associated with the calling class. Using an interactive voice response menu or an application portal, the user can assign callers to calling classes and specify call handling rules and schedules. A rejected call handler includes a voice interface, a switch control, a voicemail, interactive voice response, call progress simulator, in-message options, in-call options, post-call options, and other components. Further disclosed is a method for determining a calling rule, including determining the caller id status, querying a calling rules table, and determining a calling rule.

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to securing the privacy of messages and provide a method, system and computer program product for sender managed message privacy. In an embodiment of the invention, a data processing system for sender managed privacy can include a sender messaging client coupled to privacy management logic and configured for communicative linkage to a recipient messaging client coupled to proximity detection logic over a data communications network. The privacy management logic can include program code enabled to secure a message designated for delivery in the recipient messaging client responsive to the proximity detection logic.

The invention discloses an Internet surfing log recording system and method capable of protecting personal privacies of users. The system comprises a general management unit responsible for general management operation, a privacy management unit responsible for authorization and operation, a background safety management unit connected with the general management unit and the privacy management unit and responsible for safety of a monitoring system, and a data storage unit used for storing data. Therefore, the method is good in safety and less prone to data leakage of the personal privacies of the users, and can achieve joint administration by administrators in different levels through combination of software encryption and hardware encryption.

An identity management system incorporates privacy management processes that enable the user to exercise privacy controls over the disclosure of user identity information within the context of an authentication process. A combination includes an identity selector, a privacy engine, and a ruleset. The identity selector directs the release of a user identity in the form of a security token to satisfy the requirements dictated by a security policy. Prior to release of the user identity, the engine conducts a privacy enforcement process that examines the privacy policy of the service provider and determines if it is acceptable. The engine evaluates a ruleset against the privacy policy. A preference editor enables the user to construct, in advance, the ruleset, which embodies the user's privacy preferences regarding the disclosure of identity information. Based on the evaluation results, the user can either approve or disapprove the privacy policy, and so decide whether to proceed with disclosure of the user identity.