Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for privacy protection
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Application No.: US15284771Application Date: 2016-10-04
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Publication No.: US10652344B2Publication Date: 2020-05-12
- Inventor: Christine Bejerasco , Karmina Aquino , Heikki Hannikainen
- Applicant: F-Secure Corporation
- Applicant Address: FI Helsinki
- Assignee: F-SECURE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: F-SECURE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: FI Helsinki
- Agency: Carter, DeLuca & Farrell LLP
- Agent Robert P. Michal, Esq.
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; G06F21/62 ; G06F16/951 ; G06F16/955

Abstract:
There is provided a method for privacy protection including: intercepting at least part of network traffic from a client device; analysing network traffic data of the intercepted network traffic to identify any elements indicative of a website visitor tracking process; analysing the one or more elements indicative of the website visitor tracking process to identify any tracking fields comprising user specific data; selecting random tracking field data accepted by the website visitor tracking process and replacing the user specific data of the one or more tracking fields with the selected random tracking field data respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170099359A1 METHOD FOR PRIVACY PROTECTION Public/Granted day:2017-04-06
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