Managing personal privacy settings

摘要

Various systems and methods for managing user information on mobile devices are described herein. A selection of user information is received from a user operating a user device. A privacy setting for the selection of user information is received from the user, the privacy setting to permit or deny access to the user information to a third-party application. The selection of user information and the privacy setting is transmitted from the user device to a receiving device, where the receiving device is configured to enforce the privacy setting for the third-party application executing on the receiving device.

主权项

1. At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium for managing user information comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to:
receive at a user device from a source device, user information and a privacy setting for the user information, the user information related to that of a remote user, and the privacy setting used to permit or deny access to the user information to a third-party application executing on the user device, wherein the user information and privacy setting are stored in a data store at the source device and organized into an information profile reflecting an aspect of the remote user, and wherein the information profile is associated with a user of the user device; store the user information and privacy setting at the user device; attempt to install the third-party application on the user device; check the privacy setting for the user information; allow or deny the third-party application to install based on the privacy setting:, and manage a request to access the user information from the third-party application based on the privacy setting.