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PRIVACY PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD

  • US 20110055019A1
  • Filed: 11/08/2010
  • Published: 03/03/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for a privacy organization to manage a privacy interest for a person, comprising:

  • entering an agent relationship with the person, wherein the agent relationship is between the person and the privacy organization for the privacy organization to represent the person'"'"'s privacy interest against entities directly or indirectly involved in transactions or interactions with the person or with Internet activity performed by the person, wherein the entities include entities capable of collecting data about the person from the transactions or interactions or from the Internet activity, or are capable of using or selling the data about the person collected from the transactions or interactions or from the Internet activity;

    receiving, using a website accessed by the person, person-provided information from the person for use in identifying the person, and storing the person-provided information in a database accessible by the privacy organization; and

    using the person-provided information in the database, asserting data ownership over protected information for the person, wherein the protected information includes personal information or transactional information, and wherein asserting data ownership includes providing a notice to the entities that the consumer is asserting data ownership over the protected information.

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