University of Michigan

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hoang Duc Bui

Kang Geun Shin

Jongmin Choi

Junbum Shin

Kang Guen Shin

An example electronic device for protecting personal information for protecting a user's personal information may include a communicator, an output unit, a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to obtain policy data indicating a user privacy policy related to a service provided by the electronic device, identify, from the obtained policy data, first personal information to be used to provide the service, identify, from an execution file of the application providing the service, second personal information configured to be used by the application, identify third personal information used by the application while the application is executed, compare the first personal information identified from the policy data, the second personal information identified from the execution file of the application, and the third personal information used by the application, and determine, based on a result of the comparing, an operation of the electronic device for protecting the user's personal information.

Electronic device for protecting personal information and operation method thereof

A computer-implemented method is presented for detecting non-compliance with an opt-out decision of a user. The method includes: identifying select statements of a privacy policy for an online tracking entity by analyzing webpages associated with the online tracking entity, where the select statements specify data practices in response to an opt-out decision; detecting transfer of cookies from a web browser to a server, where the cookies are transferred after an opt-out decision by the given user and the server is associated with the given online tracking entity; analyzing content of the detected cookies in relation to the select statements of the privacy policy; and notifying the given user of a violation of the privacy policy in response to determining an inconsistency between the content of the detected cookies and the select statements of the privacy policy.

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