Privacy Authority Mediator for User Data Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current internet protocols fail to effectively manage and protect personal information, particularly for minors and users who want to control their data usage, as they lack secure and standardized privacy settings across diverse internet sources.
Innovation Solution
A Community of Trust (COT) system where end-users can manage their privacy through a centralized authority, enabling secure data ownership and anonymization, allowing users to control their information and securely transfer data between trusted communities while maintaining exclusive access and rights over their data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If current internet protocols are used to deliver information and services, then content providers can provide content to users anywhere in the world with free access, but users cannot effectively control or manage their personal information and privacy settings across diverse internet sources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a privacy authority as an intermediary between users and content providers. This authority issues privacy certificates that mediate the exchange of information while protecting user privacy. The privacy authority acts as a trusted third party that enables users to control their personal information without requiring complex point-to-point privacy management between users and numerous content providers.
Solution Approach 2:
The privacy certificate system provides universal privacy protection across diverse internet sources and services. A single privacy certificate issued by the privacy authority can be used across multiple content providers and services, eliminating the need for users to configure separate privacy settings for each service and reducing overall system complexity.
2Productivity
If user information is provided to advertisers for targeted advertising, then advertisers can serve relevant ads to users, but users expose their personal information without adequate control or protection
Solution Approach 1:
The privacy authority acts as an intermediary that enables targeted advertising while protecting user privacy. Instead of directly sharing personal information with advertisers, the system uses privacy certificates issued by the authority to enable advertisers to target users based on preferences and demographics without exposing sensitive personal information. This maintains advertising effectiveness while reducing information exposure risks.
3Ease of operation
If children use the Internet without specific privacy protections, then they can access free information and services, but they may be exposed to inappropriate content or advertising and cannot control their data
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables children to self-manage their privacy settings through the privacy authority. Children can issue their own privacy certificates that control what information is shared with content providers and advertisers. This self-service approach allows children to access internet services while maintaining control over their personal information and protecting themselves from inappropriate content through their own privacy decisions.
4Reliability
If centralized privacy management is implemented through a privacy authority, then users can control their personal information across all services, but the system requires new infrastructure and protocols
Solution Approach 1:
The privacy authority serves as a centralized intermediary that simplifies privacy management infrastructure. Rather than requiring complex distributed privacy management across countless services, the single privacy authority issues certificates that work universally across services. This centralized approach improves reliability while actually reducing overall system complexity by eliminating the need for each service to implement its own complex privacy management system.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method of network privacy enables end-users of a Network to have legal title or rights to all data knowingly or unknowingly transmitted while traversing a network and make individual determinations about privacy. The components may include fiber optic, copper wire, wireless satellite and or terrestrial data transport, network-level (TCP/IP) switches, an apparatus that anonymizes and redistributes user data to network data and service providers, an apparatus, system, software or process that maintains end-user security using any network protocol, any encryption method or protocol, any anonymization method and a client Graphical User Interface (“GUI”).A client GUI, electronic communication or parcel enables network end-users to option out or option into every field of end-user data that is defined and determined to be technically and contractually collectable by the network owner as represented to the end-user by the end-user and network owner agreement terms and conditions.An apparatus system, software or process maintains end-user security where the end-user connects to the network using any network protocol, any encryption method or protocol and any anonymization method. An apparatus anonymizes and redistributes user data to network data and service providers that enable network data and service providers to obtain transmissions of end-user data on end-users that have optioned into an agreement to enable the transmission of selected optioned end-user data. A data transport network enables data to be transmitted securely to and from the end-users, the apparatus that anonymizes and redistributes the end-user's data and the network data and service providers. Private Communities of Trust may be infinitely replicated and use a Centralized Privacy Authority that administers ownership of end-user data by network users, end-user monetization of data, anonymization of end-user data that can be transmitted to data and service providers and prevention of unauthorized end-user data collection. Each COT provides access the End-User via the owner of the COT with and the Correspondence the COT owner has with Internet entities to clearly define the rights of the End-User in the COT and the role of the owner of the COT in relation to the End-User and the Central Privacy Authority. A secure method of allowing one end-user in one Private Secure Community of Trust to transfer information/files from that group to another end-user in a different Private Secure Community of Trust via the Central Privacy Authority.