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Data protection based on user and gesture recognition

  • US 9,734,352 B2
  • Filed: 06/27/2014
  • Issued: 08/15/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computing device, comprising:

  • at least one processor circuit configured to receive image data from one or more image capturing devices connected to or integrated with the computing device and to analyze the image data to determine a number of persons located proximate to the computing device; and

    the at least one processor circuit being further configured to determine if the number of persons located proximate to the computing device exceeds a threshold value, to activate a first mode of operation of the computing device in response to a determination that the number of persons located proximate to the computing device does not exceed the threshold value, and to activate a second mode of operation of the computing device in response to a determination that the number of persons located proximate to the computing device exceeds the threshold value, the first mode of operation of the computing device being a mode in which sensitive data stored on the computing device and non-sensitive data stored on the computing device are both visible and accessible to a user, and the second mode of operation of the computing device being a mode in which the non-sensitive data stored on the computing device is visible and accessible to the user and the sensitive data stored on the computing device is rendered one or more of invisible to the user and inaccessible to the user,the second mode of operation being a mode in which at least one item of sensitive data is rendered invisible to the user or inaccessible to the user by performing one or more of;

    hard deleting the item of sensitive data;

    soft deleting the item of sensitive data;

    orcausing file system requests for the item of sensitive data to be ignored.

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