SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROTECT USER PRIVACY IN MULTIMEDIA UPLOADED TO INTERNET SITES
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Abstract
A system and method for protecting user privacy in multimedia uploaded to Internet sites. Briefly stated, the method includes receiving, by a server hosting an Internet privacy protection service, a media item of a subscriber of the service from a social networking service. The media item is encrypted using Digital Rights Management techniques. Policy determining who can view the media item is generated. The encrypted media item is securely stored in a cloud storage network. Storage information, including a URL of the secure storage location for the encrypted media item, is received by the Internet privacy protection service from the cloud storage network. The Internet privacy protection service generates a proxy image by encoding the URL into the proxy image using a bar code. The Internet privacy protection service uploads the proxy image to the subscriber'"'"'s social networking service account on the social networking service.
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81 Claims
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52. A face recognition method, comprising:
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monitoring, by a face recognition module located on a server of an Internet privacy protection (IPP) service, images uploaded to a web site; determining, by the face recognition module, whether an image includes facial features of a subscriber of the IPP service; if the image includes facial features of the subscriber, then notifying the subscriber, wherein notifying the subscriber includes sending, by the IPP service, a copy of the image to the subscriber to allow the subscriber to determine whether the subscriber is included in the image; and receiving, by the IPP service, a response from the subscriber, wherein if the response is a report of misuse, notifying, by the IPP service, the web site of the report of misuse. - View Dependent Claims (53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61)
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62. An Internet privacy protection (IPP) system, comprising:
an IPP service in communication with a plurality of client platforms and one or more social networking services over a wide area network, the IPP service having one or more servers to provide a mechanism to allow a subscriber of the IPP service to control access to the subscriber'"'"'s media and to provide a mechanism to detect any privacy breaches of the subscriber'"'"'s media. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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76. An article comprising:
- a storage medium having a plurality of machine accessible instructions, wherein when the instructions are executed by a processor, the instructions provide for monitoring, by a face recognition module located on a server of an Internet privacy protection (IPP) service, images uploaded to a web site;
determining, by the face recognition module, whether an image includes facial features of a subscriber of the IPP service; if the image includes facial features of the subscriber, then notifying the subscriber, wherein notifying the subscriber includes sending, by the IPP service, a copy of the image to the subscriber to allow the subscriber to determine whether the subscriber is included in the image; and receiving, by the IPP service, a response from the subscriber, wherein if the response is a report of misuse, notifying, by the IPP service, the web site of the report of misuse. - View Dependent Claims (77, 78, 79, 80, 81)
- a storage medium having a plurality of machine accessible instructions, wherein when the instructions are executed by a processor, the instructions provide for monitoring, by a face recognition module located on a server of an Internet privacy protection (IPP) service, images uploaded to a web site;
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