Social network privacy management systems and methods

• US 20160182526A1
• Filed: 12/23/2015
• Published: 06/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Witt, Thomas, Madjar, Alexander Matthew, Paul, Jonathon Bradley, Kerekes, Justin Thomas, Deets, Charles Donald Jr., Choi, Matthew K., Wagner, Samuel Leopold, Underwood, Patrick
• Application Number:
  US14/998,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20160182526A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A first privacy setting notification is provided to a user. Events are monitored to determine satisfaction of a privacy trigger condition based at least in part on the first privacy setting notification. A second privacy setting notification is provided to the user in response to the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

providing, by a computing system, a first privacy setting notification to a user;

monitoring, by the computing system, events to determine satisfaction of a privacy trigger condition based at least in part on the first privacy setting notification; and

providing, by the computing system, a second privacy setting notification to the user in response to the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on a threshold amount of time since provision of the first privacy setting notification to the user.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on the user having chosen a first privacy level for prior posts and having chosen a second privacy level for a most recent post.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on the user having changed a privacy level of a post to a second privacy level after the post was published with a first privacy level.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on the user having blocked a threshold number of friend requests over a threshold amount of time from members of a social networking system that are a threshold degree of separation from the user.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on the user having chosen a particular privacy level for posts for a threshold amount of time prior to a current post by the user.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on a user having chosen to proactively perform a privacy checkup to manage privacy settings relating to categories of posts.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on the user having not previously made a post and having not previously set privacy settings.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on the user having chosen to add a new cover photo associated with a page of the user on a social networking system.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on the user likely not selecting privacy levels for posts as intended.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition is further based at least in part on a post made by the user having appeared in a news feed of the user.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that a third privacy setting notification can be provided to the user based on the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition; and

selecting the second privacy setting notification instead of the third privacy setting notification for provision to the user based on a hierarchy of privacy setting notifications.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first privacy setting notification and the second privacy setting notification are of different types.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first privacy setting notification and the second privacy setting notification are of one type.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection from the user in response to the second privacy setting notification.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

modifying at least one privacy level for a content item based on the selection.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

maintaining at least one privacy level for a content item based on the selection.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user is a member of a social networking system.

19. A system comprising:

at least one processor;

a memory storing instructions configured to instruct the at least one processor to perform;

providing a first privacy setting notification to a user;

monitoring events to determine satisfaction of a privacy trigger condition based at least in part on the first privacy setting notification; and

providing a second privacy setting notification to the user in response to the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition.

20. A computer storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause a computer system to perform a computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a first privacy setting notification to a user;

monitoring events to determine satisfaction of a privacy trigger condition based at least in part on the first privacy setting notification; and

providing a second privacy setting notification to the user in response to the satisfaction of the privacy trigger condition.