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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2018
The Privacy Factor, Llc, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Mark A. Sartor, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
The Privacy Factor, LLC, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method, comprising: obtaining a current version of a policy associated with an application or website; comparing the current version against a previous version to identify differences in key words or phrases, each difference corresponding to interactions of the application or website, the interactions comprising use of computing device functionality or personal information; for each difference previously associated with a particular level of privacy risk, retrieving the particular level from a database; for each difference not previously associated with the particular level: generating a respective level of privacy risk associated with particular interactions of the application or website corresponding to the difference; associating the respective level to the difference; and storing in the database the difference and the respective level associated with the difference; generating a current privacy risk score based on each of the particular levels and on each of the respective levels associated with the one or more differences; determining if there was a privacy risk change; and if so, notifying the user.