| CPC G06F 21/604 (2013.01) [G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2113 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2137 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |
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1. A system comprising:
a first privacy vault, storing:
contents associated with a first user to whom the first privacy vault is assigned;
a plurality of predefined access permissions, defined for a plurality of third-parties with whom the first user has an agreed-upon sharing relationship, at least one of the access permissions defining, for at least one of the plurality of third-parties, procurement and utilization policies for contents accessed by the at least one third-party, the utilization policy for a given third party defining restrictions, on future use of content downloaded by the third party, that apply to the content once downloaded by the third party; and
a configuration for default access permission application defining a default access permission of the plurality of predefined access permissions for application to a new third-party;
one or more processors, configured to:
receive identification of the new third-party;
determine if the first user and the new third-party have an agreement established prior to identification of the new third party, the prior agreement indicating a prior policy associated with an already-existing relationship with the new third-party established outside of the first privacy vault and prior to identification of the new third-party to the first privacy vault;
determine, responsive to determining that there is the prior agreement and based on the prior agreement, whether any modification, to the default access permission indicated by the configuration to be applied to the new third-party, applies to the new third-party based on the prior policy indicating that the new third party is entitled to a second access permission that is less restrictive than access granted by the default access permission;
responsive to determining that no modification applies, associate the default access permission with the new third-party as a current access permission based on the configuration;
responsive to determining that a modification applies, associate the second access permission with the new third-party as a current access permission;
determine that at least one second other user associated with a second privacy vault uses comparable services, from the new third party, as the first user, but also has a third access permission defined for the new third party, stored in association with the new third party in the second privacy vault, that is more restrictive than the current access permission; and
automatically change the current access permission for the new third party to match the third access permission responsive to determining that the at least one second other user has the third access permission defined for the new third party.
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