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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2016
Applicant:
F-secure Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Inventors:
Assignee:
F-SECURE CORPORATION, Helsinki, FI;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a method for privacy protection including: intercepting at least part of network traffic from a client device; analysing network traffic data of the intercepted network traffic to identify any elements indicative of a website visitor tracking process; analysing the one or more elements indicative of the website visitor tracking process to identify any tracking fields comprising user specific data; selecting random tracking field data accepted by the website visitor tracking process and replacing the user specific data of the one or more tracking fields with the selected random tracking field data respectively.