Managing data privacy and information safety

Abstract

Automatically screen data associated with a user that may have already been shared on a social network or about to be shared on the social network for a potential security risk and assign a risk score to the data. If the assigned risk score is above a threshold risk score, a risk mitigation measure is generated and executed.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer implemented method for dynamically evaluating and mitigating risk associated with data shared on a social network, the method comprising:
 receiving, by a computing device, data associated with a user for posting on a social network, wherein the received data comprises at least one of text, digital images, audio or video;   assigning, by the computing device, a category to the received data;   assigning, by the computing device, a risk score to the received data based on predefined risk scores associated with the assigned category;   generating, by the computing device, a risk mitigation measure based on the assigned risk score being greater than a threshold risk score,
 wherein the threshold risk score is determined based on input from the user, 
 wherein generating the risk mitigation measure is based on a defined social network data sharing setting associated with the user, 
 wherein the risk mitigation measure comprises at least one of:
 (i) modifying the data, wherein modifying the data comprises removing one or more text strings contained in the data, blurring a portion of a digital image included in the data, deleting a portion of a digital image included in the data, and permitting a selected group of individuals to view the data, 
 (ii) deleting the data, wherein deleting the data comprises erasing the received data; 
 (iii) retaining the data wherein the data is not posted to the social network until receiving an instruction to post the data to the social network, wherein retaining the data comprises delaying a posting of the data to the social network, and storing the data in a database, 
 (iv) removing metadata associated with the received data, wherein removing metadata associated with the received data comprises removing at least one of a location metadata or a time stamp metadata, 
 (v) communicating a message regarding the data to a device, wherein communicating a message comprises sending an alert to a mobile device; 
 
   executing, by the computing device, the risk mitigation measure; and   posting, by the computing device, the modified data to the social network.