Patent ID: 9565557
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, at a computing device operating according to a user account, location information indicative of a location of the computing device; determining, by the computing device, one or more applications installed on the computing device and on one or more other computing devices that are configured to access the location information, wherein the one or more other computing devices operate according to the user account; determining, by the computing device, a privacy setting selected in the user account of the computing device that indicates whether the one or more applications installed on the computing device have access to the location information; transferring, by the computing device using the user account, the privacy setting selected in the user account of the computing device to the one or more other computing devices that operate according to the user account and are configured to access the location information and on which the one or more applications are installed; and based on the transferred privacy setting selected in the user account, determining, by the computing device, accesses of the one or more applications installed on the computing device and on the one or more other computing devices to the location information indicative of the location of the computing device.