Meta Platforms, Inc.
People Directory with Social Privacy and Contact Association Features

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving from an initiating user a request for information of a target user, accessing information associated with the initiating user comprising one or more attributes, determining whether the initiating user is permitted to access information related to the target user based on privacy settings of the target user, wherein the privacy settings require the initiating user attributes to satisfy one or more social, spatiotemporal, geographic, or temporal conditions, and blocking the initiating user from accessing information of the target user in response to determining that the initiating user does not fulfill the requirements of the privacy settings of the target user.