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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Dave Christiansen, Woodinville, WA (US);
Bethan Tetrault Cantrell, Redmond, WA (US);
Michelle R. Bruno, Snohomish, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The technology includes a method to test what information an application transfers to an external computing device. A user's consent is explicitly obtained before the application transfers certain types of information, such as sensitive information. When a determination is made that an application is transferring sensitive information, a prompt for consent from a user may be provided that is accurate and detailed. In pre-production environments, technology can be used to detect whether this sensitive information is being transferred, and to validate whether a prompt for consent is necessary or unnecessary. To determine this, shimming is used to intercept application calls to APIs that return sensitive information. Requested sensitive information may be substituted with recorded or forged information from those APIs to produce a sentinel or canary. Similarly, network traffic of the application may be analyzed by another shim to determine when the substitute information is present.