Patent ID: 9674214
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors, a request to remove data that is associated with a particular individual that does not maintain any personal social network profiles, wherein the request is based on a user input received at a threat protection platform, wherein the received request includes one or more data parameters that define specific data associated with the particular individual to be removed, and wherein the one or more data parameters include name, images, date of birth, gender, location, email address, education, and organization data; generating, for each of the received one or more data parameters, a reference to the data parameter, wherein at least one of the generated references comprises a hash of an image associated with the particular individual; storing, at a social risk database, the one or more generated references for each of the one or more data parameters; scanning data that is maintained on multiple social networks, wherein scanning comprises identifying, by one or more processors, data that is associated with one or more social entities; determining one or more characteristics of the identified data; generating, for each of the one or more characteristics, a reference to the identified data that indicates the characteristic; identifying a match between the one or more generated references and at least one of the one or more stored references; submitting, by one or more processors, a request to at least one of the multiple social networks to remove the identified data associated with the one or more generated references; generating an alert to the particular individual, wherein the generated alert includes the identified data and the request submitted to the at least one of the multiple social networks; and providing the alert, through the protection platform, to the particular individual.