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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2019
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anant Mahajan, Culver City, CA (US);
SriHarsha Angara, Mountain View, CA (US);
NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting users may include (i) detecting, by a privacy-protecting security application, an attempt by a user to upload an item of media content, (ii) determining, by the privacy-protecting security application, that the item of media content matches a true identity signature for the user that the privacy-protecting security application generated based on other items of media content relating to the user, and (iii) prompting, by the privacy-protecting security application in response to determining that the item of media content matches the true identity signature, the user to perform a privacy-protecting security action to prevent exposing a true identity for the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.