Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

University of Michigan

Kang Guen Shin

Jongmin Choi

Junbum Shin

Hoang Duc Bui

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.

Growing community of inventors

Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Kang Guen Shin