At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Adam Christopher Bender

Balachander Krishnamurthy

Craig Ellis Wills

Methods, systems, and products protect personally identifiable information. Many websites acquire the personally identifiable information without a user's knowledge or permission. Here, though, the user may control what personally identifiable information is shared with any website. For example, the personally identifiable information may be read from a header of a packet and compared to a requirement associated with a domain name.

Protection of personally identifiable information

Tailored protection of personally identifiable information

A negotiation-based mechanism enables a user to share personally identifiable information with a requesting website, for example, a third party website such as an aggregator website that might be gathering information about the user. The user, rather than being limited to a pre-set collection of privacy options, is free to negotiate with the requesting website and agree to share more or less information with based on the user's trust of the requesting website.

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Adam Christopher Bender