Mcafee, Inc.

Ryan M Durand

Carl D Woodward

Kunal Mehta

Simon R Hunt

Steven L Grobman

Lynda M Grindstaff

An example system to obscure personally identifiable information of a user of an electronic device is disclosed. The example system includes a first processor to select a set of instructions from a plurality of sets of instructions. The first processor also is to transmit the set of instructions to a second processor, the second processor disposed in an electronic device, the electronic device remote from the first processor, the set of instructions to cause the second processor to obtain non-personally identifiable data from the personally identifiable information gathered by the electronic device. The example system also includes a remote data reader to read the non-personally identifiable data from the electronic device.

Protecting personally identifiable information from electronic user devices

In an example, there is a disclosed a computing apparatus, including: a psychological state data interface to receive psychological state data; one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware element, including a verification engine to: receive a requested user action; receive a psychological state input via the psychological state data interface; analyze the psychological state input; and bar the requested user action at least partly responsive to the analyzing.

Verified social media content

There is disclosed in one example a social media server, including: a processor; a trusted input/output (IO) interface to communicatively couple to a consumer device; a network interface to communicatively couple to an enterprise; and a memory having stored thereon executable instructions to instruct the processor to provide a data loss prevention (DLP) engine to: receive via the trusted IO interface a signed and encrypted user posting for the social media service, the user posting including a signed user state report verifying that the user has passed a biometric screening; transmit content of the user posting to the enterprise via the network interface for DLP analysis; receive from the enterprise a notification that the user posting has passed DLP analysis; and accept the user posting.

Protecting personally identifiable information data collected and/or stored in physical objects with embedded electronic devices by performing at least the following: obtaining a plurality of personally identifiable information algorithms for a plurality of electronic user devices, determining a relevant personally identifiable information algorithm from the plurality of personally identifiable information algorithms, executing the relevant personally identifiable information algorithm over the relevant personally identifiable information from one of the electronic user devices to construct a personally identifiable information data result, and transmitting the personally identifiable information data result without transmitting the relevant personally identifiable information to a remote computing system.

In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus, comprising: a psychological state data interface to receive psychological state data; one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware element, comprising a verification engine to: receive a requested user action; receive a psychological state input via the psychological state data interface; analyze the psychological state input; and bar the requested user action at least partly responsive to the analyzing.

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Hillsboro, OR, United States of America

Ryan M Durand