CONTROLLING UNREGULATED AGGREGATION OF MOBILE APP USAGE

摘要

A technique is presented for controlling behavior tracking by mobile apps executing on a mobile computing device. A set of profiles are managed by a privacy manager, where each profile represents a different isolated execution environment on the mobile computing device and defines a set of privacy rules governing an application while executing in an associated execution environment. Prior to launching the app, a user of the app is prompted by the privacy manager to select a profile for the app from the set of profiles. The privacy manager in turn applies the set of privacy rules associated with the selected profile to the app during execution of the app on the mobile computing device.

主权项

1. A method for controlling behavior tracking by applications executing on a mobile computing device, comprising:
managing, by a privacy manager, a set of profiles, each profile representing a different isolated execution environment on the mobile computing device and defining a set of privacy rules governing an application while executing in the associated execution environment; prompting, by the privacy manager, a user to indicate a profile for a given application prior to execution of the given application in an execution environment on the mobile computing device; receiving, by the privacy manager, an input from a user of the given application, the input indicating a profile selected from the set of profiles; and applying, by the privacy manager, the set of privacy rules associated with the selected profile to the given application during execution of the given application, where the privacy manager is implemented by computer readable instructions executed by a processor of the mobile computing device.