246 results about "Privacy policy" patented technology

A mobile robot guest for interacting with a human resident performs a room-traversing search procedure prior to interacting with the resident, and may verbally query whether the resident being sought is present. Upon finding the resident, the mobile robot may facilitate a teleconferencing session with a remote third party, or interact with the resident in a number of ways. For example, the robot may carry on a dialogue with the resident, reinforce compliance with medication or other schedules, etc. In addition, the robot incorporates safety features for preventing collisions with the resident; and the robot may audibly announce and/or visibly indicate its presence in order to avoid becoming a dangerous obstacle. Furthermore, the mobile robot behaves in accordance with an integral privacy policy, such that any sensor recording or transmission must be approved by the resident.

A system and method for assessing the risk associated with the protection of data privacy by software application. A decision engine is provided to assess monitor and manage key issues around the risk management of data privacy. The system creates a core repository that manages, monitors and measures the data privacy assessments of applications across an institution (e.g., a corporation). The system and method employs automated questionnaires that require responses from the user (preferably the manager responsible for the application). The responses are tracked in order to evaluate the progress of the assessment and the status of the applications with respect to compliance with the enterprise's data privacy policies and procedures as well as the regulations and laws of the jurisdictions in which the application is operated. Once a questionnaire has been completed, the application is given ratings both with respect to the data privacy impact of the application and the application's compliance with the data privacy requirements. If a risk exists, a plan for reducing the risk or bringing the application into compliance can be formulated, and progress towards compliance can be tracked. Alternatively, an identified exposure to risk can be acknowledged through the system, which requires sign off by various higher level managers and administrators.

A method and system that provide an intuitive user interface and related components for making Internet users aware of Internet cookie-related privacy issues, and enabling users to control Internet privacy through automatic cookie handling. Default privacy settings for handling cookies are provided, and through the user interface, the privacy settings may be customized to a user's liking. Further, through the user interface, for each individual site that forms a page of content, the site's privacy policy may be reviewed and/or the privacy controlled by specifying how cookies from that site are to be handled. To make users aware, the user interface provides an active alert on a first instance of a retrieved web site's content that fails to include satisfactory privacy information, and thereafter, provides a distinctive passive alert to allow the user selective access to privacy information, per-site cookie handling and cookie handling settings.

Systems and methods for providing personal information certification and management includes receiving, from a first device, a first privacy policy associated with a website, associating the first privacy policy with a first certification, and displaying, on a customer device in response to the determining that the customer device has accessed the website, the first certification. One or more pre-authorized consent configurations associated with the customer is retrieved, from a non-transitory memory. Pre-authorized consent associated with the website is determined according to the one or more pre-authorized consent configurations using the first certification. The pre-authorized consent is sent to the first device.

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.

The invention describes a method for presenting search engine results based on domain name related reputation data. The search engine may sort or order search engine results based on domain name related reputation data. In some cases links connected to low reputation domain names may be excluded from search engine results. Alternatively, the search engine may show reputation ratings next to the links in the search engine results. Thus, allowing the Internet user to determine whether to visit the link or not. The reputation data may be tracked on the domain name itself, URLs, domain name purchaser or registrant, or email addresses associated with the domain name. The reputation data may include various categories, such as email practices, website content, privacy policies and practices, fraudulent activities, domain name related complaints, overall reputation, etc.

A computer implemented method of processing data containing information about relationships between contacts and a community of contact owners, comprises: collecting data including contact information, contact owner information and one or more values related to strength of a relationship between the contact and the contact owner; evaluating the strength of the relationship based on the one or more values; and storing the collected data and evaluated strength in a computer database. A method of keying a database, comprises: building a database of records, each containing information about an entity, and each of which include a domain name field; and setting the domain name field as a key field; whereby a record for an entity is found by reference to a domain name. A method of keying a database, comprises: building a database of records, each containing information about an entity, and each of which include an email address field; and setting the email address field as a key field; whereby a record for an entity is found by reference to an email address. A method of keying a database, comprising: building a database of records, each containing information about an entity, and each of which includes a field holding an identifier uniquely associated with an entity by a convention of computer networking; and setting the field holding the identifier as a key field; whereby a record for an entity is found by reference to an identifier. A method of sharing relationship information, comprising: maintaining a database of relationship information records; selecting contact information according to a selection criterion; and returning selected relationship information also complying with restrictions set in a set of hierarchical privacy policies.

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.

A method and system are provided for securing data on a mobile device that supports both enterprise and personal applications. According to the method, information flows and data accesses are tracked on the device at run-time to enable access control decisions to be performed based on a policy, such as an enterprise privacy policy that has been distributed to the device from an enterprise server. The policy may be updated by events at the device as well as at the enterprise server.

Techniques for providing privacy protection are provided. A query is received. Privacy policy information, extracted knowledge and optional information about available public information are determined. Information about the knowledge extraction transformations applied to create the extracted knowledge and the source data is determined. Privacy protecting transformations are determined and applied to transform the extracted knowledge based on the selected privacy policy, optional information about available public information, the characteristics of the applied knowledge extractions transformations, the source data and optional previous user queries.

A system and method that evaluates privacy policies from web sites to determine whether each site is permitted to perform operations (e.g., store, retrieve or delete) directed to cookies on a user's computer. Various properties of each cookie and the context in which it is being used are evaluated against a user's privacy preference settings to make the determination. An evaluation engine accomplishes the evaluation and determination via a number of criteria and considerations, including the cookie properties, its current context, the site, the zone that contains the site, and any P3P data (compact policy) provided with the site's response. The user privacy preferences are evaluated against these criteria to determine whether a requested cookie operation is allowed, denied or modified. A formalized distinction between first-party cookies versus third-party cookies may be used in the determination, along with whether the cookie is a persistent cookie or a session cookie.