Automatic shared personal image privacy level detection and management

摘要

Network traffic is monitored, and activities concerning posting images to sharing sites are detected. Detected activities can be attempts to login to sharing sites, or attempts to post images. Privacy concerns associated with sharing images on target sites are identified. In the case of detecting a successful attempt to login to a known sharing site, the site is scanned for the privacy settings in effect for the user, and it is determined whether the settings are below a given threshold. Another example of a privacy concern is detecting an attempt to post an image to an unknown site. When a privacy concern is detected, the user is warned, and prompted to indicate whether images are to be posted to the target site anyway. Attempts to post images to sites that are subject to privacy concerns are processed according to received user directives (e.g., blocked or allowed).