US Patent 10162982 End user control of personal data in the cloud

Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for receiving, by an authorization manager of a cloud-platform, a request from an application, the request indicating a request to access personal user data stored in a database system of the cloud-platform, determining, by the authorization manager and based on user input from a user, that access to the personal user data is to be granted, and in response: providing, by the authorization manager, an access token to the application, receiving an access request from the application, the access request including the access token, and selectively providing the personal user data from a database container of the database system based on the access token, the database container being specific to the user.