System and method to detect online privacy violation

• US 9,934,542 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2014
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Original Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Inventors: Chauhan, Nitin Singh, Saxena, Ashutosh, Telikicherla, Krishna Chaitanya
• Primary Examiner(s): Revak, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US14/493,316
• Publication Number:
  US 20150088777A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,289 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/01 Customer relationship services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method to detect online privacy violation. The method comprising steps of embedding a tracker into a web browser to open at least one data consumer website or at least one third party website wherein a user submits at least one data value into their corresponding data field in a data consumer website; generating one or more privacy profile using the tracker wherein the profile assists the user to select one or more data fields as per the user preferences; capturing the user selected one or more data fields and their corresponding plurality of browsing history using the tracker; storing the profile and the plurality of browsing history into at least one database; triggering of the tracker for detecting online privacy violation in a third party website and submitting at least one data field into at least one input field to detect online privacy violation for the submitted data field.

Claims

1. A method to detect online privacy violation, the method comprising steps of:

embedding a tracker into a web browser to open at least one data consumer website or at least one third party website, wherein a user submits at least one data value into their corresponding data field in a data consumer website;

generating one or more profile using the tracker, wherein the profile assists the user to select one or more data fields as per the user preferences;

capturing the user selected one or more data fields and their corresponding plurality of browsing history using the tracker;

storing the profile and the plurality of browsing history into at least one database through the tracker;

triggering of the tracker for detecting online privacy violation in a third party website; and

submitting at least one data field by the user into at least one input field as provided through the tracker to detect online privacy violation for the submitted data field;

wherein triggering of at least one processor using the tracker to compare the submitted data field with the data field as stored in the database and matching of the stored data field with its corresponding browsing history to indicate one or more websites with their related timestamps that have assisted in violating privacy of the user by leaking the submitted data field to the third party website.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the tracker gets activated when a user opens a data consumer website or a third party website.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the data field comprises combination of one or more user-IDs or one or more data consumer website details or one or more submitted form field details or one or more time stamps or one or more privacy terms or one or more third party details.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the generating one or more profiles using a profile management module of the tracker.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the capturing the user selected one or more data field and their corresponding plurality of browsing history using a capturing module of the tracker.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4 wherein the profile management module enables user to add, modify, and delete the profile as per their requirement and preferred data fields by the user.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the processing of privacy violation detection are on at least one cloud computing based system.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the storing of one or more profiles and browsing history are on at least one cloud computing based system.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprises alerting the user with one or more websites that have violated privacy of the user though the tracker from the processor.

10. A system to detect online privacy violation, the system comprising:

a first processor configured to execute a browser to open at least one data consumer website or at least one third party website, wherein in the data consumer website the user submits at least one data value into a corresponding data field;

a tracker embedded into the browser, the tracker configured to assist to generate one or more profiles for the user, the profile configured to enable the user to select one or more data fields as established on user preferences;

wherein the tracker captures the user selected data field and a corresponding plurality of browsing history; and

a second processor configured to execute a privacy system and at least one database, the privacy system operatively connected with the tracker;

wherein the database stores the profile and the plurality of browsing history;

wherein the tracker is triggered through the user for detecting an online privacy violation in a third party website, wherein the tracker enables the user to submit at least one data field into at least one input field as provided through the tracker to detect the online privacy violation for the submitted data field;

wherein the second processor is configured to be triggered by the tracker to compare the submitted data field with the stored data field in the database and matching of the stored data field with its corresponding browsing history to indicate one or more websites with their related timestamps that have assisted in violating privacy of the user by leaking the submitted data field to the third party.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10 wherein the tracker is configured to be activated when a user opens a consumer data website or a third party website.

12. The system as claimed in claim 10 wherein the tracker comprises:

a profile management module to create the profile for the user;

a capturing module to capture the user selected data field and the browsing history; and

a detection module configured to trigger a request to the privacy system to detect privacy violation, while accessing one or more third party websites.

13. The system as claimed in claim 12 wherein the profile management module is configured to enable the user to add, modify, and delete profile as per their requirement and the user define his preference of data fields.

14. The system as claimed in claim 10 further comprising a connectivity module operatively connected with each of the modules of the tracker to enable connectivity to the modules.

15. The system as claimed in claim 10 wherein the privacy system is in at least one cloud based system.

16. The system as claimed in claim 10 wherein the database that has the data fields stored includes a combination of user-Ids or data consumer website details or submitted form fields details or time stamps or privacy terms or third party details.

17. The system as claimed in claim 10 wherein the second processor is configured to provide alerting the user with one or more websites that have violated privacy of the user though the privacy tracker.