Privacy protection system and method
First Claim
1. A privacy protection system including a user side device (22) provided with a true user profile which comprises user related profile data, a profile generator (24) operable to generate at least one false user profile (26a-26c) which includes profile data not the same as the user'"'"'s profile data, transmission means operable to transmit the at least one false user profile to a third party (14-18) with a data request, a receiving unit (28a-28c) operable to receive a response from the third party generated on the basis of the false user profile, and a response analyser (30) operable to determine from the received response a response related to the true user profile.
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Abstract
A privacy protection system in which a user accesses via his/her personal computer (10) one or more web service providers (14, 16, 18) provides a trusted area (20) which includes storage memory (22) in which the user'"'"'s profile is stored. The memory (22) is connected to fake identity generator (24) designed to generate a plurality of fake user identities (26a to 26c) and to transmit these to the service providers (14 to 18). The trusted area (20) also includes a response analyser (30) for analysing the responses (28a to 28c) generated by the service providers (14 to 18). From the responses the response analyser generates the correct response, or an approximation of the correct response, for the user'"'"'s true identity The system provides for obtaining personalised responses form service providers but without revealing the user'"'"'s true identity.
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11 Claims
- 1. A privacy protection system including a user side device (22) provided with a true user profile which comprises user related profile data, a profile generator (24) operable to generate at least one false user profile (26a-26c) which includes profile data not the same as the user'"'"'s profile data, transmission means operable to transmit the at least one false user profile to a third party (14-18) with a data request, a receiving unit (28a-28c) operable to receive a response from the third party generated on the basis of the false user profile, and a response analyser (30) operable to determine from the received response a response related to the true user profile.
- 8. A privacy protection method including the steps of providing at a user side a true user profile (22) comprising user related profile data, providing a profile generator (24) which generates at least one false user profile (26a-26c) which includes profile data not the same as the true user profile data, transmitting (42) the at least one false user profile to a third party (14-18) with a data request, receiving (44) a response (28c-28c) from the third party generated on the basis of the false user profile, and providing a response analyser (30) which analyses the response to determine from the received response a response related to the true user profile.
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