Privacy Monitoring Service for Conversations

Abstract

Leakage of personal information in conversations raises serious privacy concerns. Malicious people or bots could pry into sensitive personal information of vulnerable people, such as juveniles, through conversations with them or their digital personal assistants. To address the problem, we present a privacy-leakage warning system that monitors conversations in social media and intercepts the outgoing text messages from a user or a digital assistant, if they impose potential privacy leakage risks. Such messages are redirected to authorized users for approval, before they are sent out. We demonstrate how our system is deployed and used on a social media conversation platform, e.g., Facebook Messenger. A video record of our system demonstration is included in supplementary material and is also available at Google Drive.