INSTANT PERSONALIZATION SECURITY

摘要

Some embodiments involve methods and systems for instant personalization security. For example, a social networking system can provide a platform for a user to open applications and/or access external websites. In some cases, an application does not have access to the user's fully identifying profile (e.g., UID or other public information). Instead, the application has access to a pseudonymous profile corresponding to a hashed ID that is generated by the platform and provided to the application. Access to the pseudonymous profile enables the application or an external website to personalize its environment without breaching the security of the platform.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
providing a social networking interface of a social networking system for a user account via a user device to access a third-party application or an external website to the social networking system, wherein the user device is logged into the social networking system as the user account; generating a hashed identifier (hashed ID) according to a hash function based on at least an identifier of the user account (UID), the UID associated with a fully identifying profile of the user account in the social networking system, wherein the hashed ID is different from the UID and is unique to the user account; associating the hashed ID with a pseudonymous profile of the user account, wherein the pseudonymous profile includes a subset of information in the fully identifying profile; and providing, to the third-party application or the external website, the hashed ID to identify profile information in the pseudonymous profile for instant personalization targeting the user account.