Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130097091 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AUDITING SPECIFICATIONS - An approach is provided for generating auditing specifications. The compliance platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more data collection policies to determine one or more specifications that specify, at least in part, data to log for determining a compliance with the one or more data collection policies (e.g., based on minimizing an amount of the data to log). Then, the compliance platform causes, at least in part, an installation of the one or more specifications at one or more data stores operating under the one or more data collection policies to cause, at least in part, an initiation of a logging of the data. | 04-18-2013 |
20130111205 | Methods And Apparatus For Sharing Real-Time User Context Information | 05-02-2013 |
20130174211 | Method And Apparatus Providing Privacy Setting And Monitoring User Interface - A method and an apparatus provide for operating a user interface of a device to receive from a user, for individual ones of a plurality of user privacy categories, a user privacy setting; to map each user privacy setting to one or more device sensors to form a sensor policy for the user privacy category; and to monitor application program accesses to device sensors to detect a violation of a sensor policy. An aspect of the exemplary embodiments of this invention is the user interface that can represent privacy levels of each application program to the user in a “user-friendly” format. Another aspect of the exemplary embodiments is to provide the user device with an ability to detect and act on or at least report privacy violations by the application programs. | 07-04-2013 |
20130185804 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PRIVACY RATINGS FOR APPLICATIONS - An approach is provided for generating privacy ratings for applications. A privacy ratings platform determines use information associated with one or more applications executing on one or more devices. By way of example, the use information is determined based, at least in part, on usage data associated with one or more input sources, one or more components, one or more categories of personal information, or a combination thereof associated with the one or more devices. The privacy ratings platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the use information to determine one or more privacy ratings for the one or more applications. | 07-18-2013 |
20130198849 | Method And Apparatus Providing Privacy Benchmarking For Mobile Application Development - A method operates, during development of an application program intended to be run on a mobile user device, to perform a computer assisted analysis of the application program to determine at least one user privacy-related aspect of the application program; and to present the determined at least one user privacy-related aspect. The determined at least one user privacy-related aspect may be presented to a developer of the application program An apparatus and system for performing the method are also disclosed. | 08-01-2013 |
20130263206 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POLICY ADAPTION BASED ON APPLICATION POLICY COMPLIANCE ANALYSIS - An approach is provided for policy adaption based on application policy compliance analysis. The compliance platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more policy compliance logs associated with at least one application to determine one or more policy compliance profiles associated with the at least one application. The compliance platform determines one or more contexts under which the at least one application operates. The compliance platform causes, at least in part, an association of the one or more policy compliance profiles with the one or more contexts. The compliance platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of user contextual information, user application use information, or a combination thereof against the association, the one or more policy compliance profiles, the one or more contexts, or a combination thereof to determine one or more adaptions to one or more policies associated with the at least one application. | 10-03-2013 |
20130298247 | Method And Apparatus For User Information Exchange - Methods and apparatus for negotiation of data sharing arrangements. A user profile vector comprising user data is defined according to user selections and privacy and cost information relating to the user profile vector are computed. The user profile vector and service provider data requests by service providers are compared, and data sharing arrangements are entered into when a match is identified between the user profile vector and a provider data request. Data collection and sharing is conducted in accordance with the arrangements. | 11-07-2013 |
20130298248 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION PRIVACY - An approach is provided for providing real-time controlled location privacy as the location evolves, and providing a user with alternate routes and applications depending on the level of desired location privacy. A location privacy platform determines at least one location associated with at least one device. The location privacy platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of contextual information associated with the at least one location, the at least one device, one or more applications associated with the at least one device, or a combination thereof to determine one or more privacy metrics for the one or more applications with respect to the at least one location; wherein the one or more privacy metrics relate, at least in part, to an exposure of user data by the one or more applications at the at least one location. | 11-07-2013 |
20140006616 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CATEGORIZING APPLICATION ACCESS REQUESTS ON A DEVICE | 01-02-2014 |
20140046591 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GROUP ROUTE RECOMMENDATIONS - An approach is provided for providing alternative route recommendations for a group of nearby users in a privacy preserving manner. A recommendation platform determines at least one group of one or more users within proximity of at least one location-based service, at least one location-based event, or a combination thereof. A recommendation platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more datasets associated with the group to cause, at least in part, a determination of whether to recommend the at least one location-based service, the at least one location-based event, or a combination thereof to the group. A recommendation platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of the at least one location-based service, the at least one location-based event, or a combination thereof to the group, the one or more users, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the determination of whether to recommend. | 02-13-2014 |
20140067938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VALIDATING CROWDSOURCED LOCATION DATA - Methods and apparatuses are provided for validating crowdsourced location data. A validation platform causes, at least in part, a determination of location data reported by at least one user, at least one device associated with the at least one user, or a combination thereof. The validation platform processes, and/or facilitates a processing of personal detail information associated with the at least one user, the at least one device, or a combination thereof to cause, at least in part, a validation of the location data. | 03-06-2014 |
20140089272 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TAGGED DELETION OF USER ONLINE HISTORY - An approach is provided for deleting a user's online data across different services and platforms based on contextual selection criteria. The deletion manager determines at least one request to delete data associated with at least one user, the request specifying at least in part one or more contextual parameters. The deletion manager determines one or more data records associated with the at least one user from one or more services, one or more applications, or a combination thereof. The deletion manager causes, at least in part, a deletion of the one or more data records based, at least in part, on whether the data at least substantially meet the one or more contextual parameters. | 03-27-2014 |
20140096261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PRIVACY POLICY FOR DATA STREAM - An approach for providing a privacy policy for a data stream is described. A privacy policy determination platform causes, at least in part, an interception of at least one data stream accessible to at least one processing element of a stream processing framework. The privacy policy determination platform also causes, at least in part, a parsing of the at least one data stream to determine privacy sensitive data associated with at least one user. The privacy policy determination platform further determines at least one privacy policy for the at least one user, the at least one processing element, the at least one data stream, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the privacy sensitive data. | 04-03-2014 |
20140108361 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION TRAJECTORY COMPRESSION BASED ON MAP STRUCTURE - An approach is provided for compressing location trajectories based on map structure. A compression platform causes, at least in part, a mapping of at least one location trajectory to at least one map to determine one or more intersections traveled along the at least one location trajectory. The compression platform further determines at least one compression key based, at least in part, on one or more outgoing roads of the one or more intersections. The compression platform also causes, at least in part, a compression of the at least one location trajectory based, at least in part, on the at least one compression key. | 04-17-2014 |
20140188626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE ADVERTISING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to serve advertisements based upon the current context of the user in a manner that both ensures the relevancy of the advertisements and maintains the privacy of the contextual information of the user. In this regard, a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to receive encrypted context data from one or more users including one or more trapdoors associated with one or more keywords and to receive advertisement information from one or more advertisers including a searchable encryption. Further, the method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to cause an advertisement to be provided to a first user based upon the encrypted context data of the first user and the advertisement information from one or more advertisers. | 07-03-2014 |
20140259096 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIVACY POLICY MANAGEMENT - Various methods are provided for determining run-time characteristics of an application at the time of installation and/or modification. Based on the determined run time characteristics, various methods control the installation and/or modification of the application based on a user privacy profile. One example method may comprise receiving a request to modify an application. A method may further comprise determining whether a conflict is present between the application and a user privacy profile. A method may further comprise causing the determined conflict and at least one conflict resolution to be displayed in an instance in which a conflict is determined. A method additionally comprises causing a user privacy profile to be modified in an instance in which an indication of acceptance is received in response to the displayed at least one conflict resolution. | 09-11-2014 |