Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a personal information protection apparatus, a personal information protection method, and a program that make it possible to easily control a range of personal information to be provided to an application. The personal information protection apparatus according to the present invention performs machine learning on terms of use, classifications, and access settings of applications installed in a terminal, and holds them as a user policy, and when an attempt is made to change the access settings of a certain application, presents, to the user, recommended settings based on the user policy. When the user changes access settings of an application based on a policy that is different from the prior and existing policy, this personal information protection apparatus performs learning on the user policy again using the changed access settings.

Abstract: In order to make an extension/deletion of management function possible without interruption of a system operation and make a conversion between a plurality of management protocols possible in a network communication system for use and maintenance of a communication network, a managed object obtained by abstracting a physical subject such as a communication device or a communication service to be managed transfers from a management manager or an object server storing a plurality of managed objects on the basis of an instruction from the management manager performing a management operation and the transferred managed object is executed.