Patent ID: 8429710
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for preventing a user from exposing private information on a website, the method comprising: receiving information from a user for submission to a website; determining a category associated with the website to which the user is submitting the information, the category associated with the website indicating whether the website publicly exposes information submitted to the website or whether the website includes private information that should not be publically exposed; determining a category associated with the information indicating whether the information should not be publically exposed or whether the information has already been publically exposed; comparing the category associated with the website and the category associated with the information; determining that submitting the information to the website is a security risk based on the comparison indicating that the category associated with the website indicates that the website publicly exposes information submitted to the website and that the category associated with the information indicates that the information should not be publicly exposed; and performing an enforcement action responsive to determining that submitting the information to the website is a security risk.