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Generating a privacy rating for an application or website

  • US 9,942,276 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2016
  • Issued: 04/10/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of rating privacy risk, the method comprising:

  • receiving by a privacy analyzing server device an identifier of an application or website;

    identifying by the privacy analyzing server device at least one policy associated with the application or website;

    obtaining by the privacy analyzing server device the at least one policy associated with the application or website, the at least one policy being in machine-readable format;

    identifying, by the privacy analyzing server device, key words or phrases included in the at least one policy, the identified key words or phrases corresponding to one or more interactions of the application or website, the one or more interactions comprising use of functionality of a computing device or use of personal information;

    for each respective key word or phrase identified by the privacy analyzing server device,determining whether the respective key word or phrase has been previously assigned a particular level of privacy risk;

    if the respective key word or phrase has been previously assigned the particular level of privacy risk, then retrieving the particular level of privacy risk from a database;

    if the respective key word or phrase has not been previously assigned the particular level of privacy risk, thengenerating a respective level of privacy risk associated with one or more particular interactions of the application or website corresponding to the respective key word or phrase;

    assigning to the respective key word or phrase the respective level of privacy risk associated with the one or more particular interactions of the application or website corresponding to the respective key word or phrase; and

    storing in the database the respective key word or phrase and the respective level of privacy risk assigned to the respective key word or phrase;

    generating by the privacy analyzing server device a privacy rating for the application or website based on the particular levels of privacy risk and on the respective levels of privacy risk assigned to the respective key words or phrases in the at least one policy, the privacy rating indicating a particular level of privacy risk of the application or website; and

    storing the privacy rating for the application or website and the at least one policy in the database.

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