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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2018
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
SriHarsha Angara, Culver City, CA (US);
Michael Lo, Culver City, CA (US);
Srini Chillappa, Culver City, CA (US);
Simon Tiku, Culver City, CA (US);
Viral Mehta, Culver City, CA (US);
John Meehan, Culver City, CA (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting unauthorized data shares may include (1) providing a user of an anonymized inbox with an email alias to use for a particular online entity, (2) identifying one or more emails sent to the email alias from one or more different entities that are different from the particular online entity, (3) determining, based on the one or more emails having been sent by the different entities, that the particular online entity has shared the user's email alias with other entities, and (4) creating a privacy score for the particular online entity based at least in part on the determination that the particular online entity has shared the user's email alias with other entities. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.