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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2017
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark Kennedy, Gardena, CA (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting geolocation information may include (i) receiving, by a computing device, a geolocation security policy that defines an area in which access to geolocation information by applications will be at least partially limited to protect the privacy of a user, (ii) detecting, by the computing device, a geolocation of the computing device, (iii) applying, by the computing device, the geolocation security policy to the detected geolocation to determine whether the detected geolocation matches the area in which access to geolocation information by the applications will be at least partially limited, and (iv) performing, by the computing device, a security action to protect the privacy of the user based on determining that the detected geolocation matches the area. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.