Patent ID: 8839443

Claim:
A method for monitoring electronic leakage of information comprising: searching for information, by a processor of a monitoring system independent of an online social network, using a directed search, the information in electronic form and unique to a second party, the information being publicly available as a result of an electronic leakage of information caused by a first party adding the information as explanatory text for content uploaded to the online social network; notifying the second party that the information is publicly available, and of a location of the information; receiving from the second party a notification that the second party objects to public availability of the information; creating a learned profile of sensitivities of the second party based on the notification; searching for additional information that is in electronic form and that is unique to the second party, the additional information being publicly available as a result of an electronic leakage of the additional information comprising disclosure of online social network relationship information caused by a tag applied to the content by a third party; determining, based on the learned profile of sensitivities, that the second party would object to public availability of the additional information; and notifying the third party that the second party objects to public availability of the additional information, wherein the location of the information is monitored more frequently than other locations that have not been involved in electronic leakage of information caused by the first party.