Patent ID: 11947701
Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a gateway application installed in a computing device, a request to access data collected by a sensor device on the computing device, the request originating from a software application installed in the computing device;
determining, by the gateway application, whether the software application has authorization to access one or more biometric features in the collected data;
upon determining that the software application does have authorization to access the one or more biometric features, providing, by the gateway application, the software application with access to the collected data; and
upon determining that the software application does not have authorization to access the one or more biometric features:
altering, by the gateway application, the collected data by obfuscating the one or more biometric features within the collected data; and
providing, by the gateway application, the software application with access to the collected data having the obfuscated one or more biometric features,

wherein:
the collected data collected by the sensor device comprises image data; and
obfuscating the one or more biometric features within the collected data comprises:
identifying a region within the image data associated with the one or more biometric features; and
applying an obfuscation technique to the region within the image data.