Patent ID: 8423642

Claim:
A system for selectively enabling access to a first user's personal information, wherein said system comprises: memory for storing said first user's information and for storing a plurality of programmatic instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause said system to: electronically receive an instruction from said first user to assign a second user, from among a plurality of users, to a first category, and in response to said instruction, assign said second user to said first category; electronically receive an instruction from said first user to assign a third user, from said plurality of users, to a second category different than said first category and in response to said instruction, assign said third user to said second category; based upon said first category, permit said second user to access a first amount of the first user's personal information including a first information item about the first user; based upon said second category, permit said third user to access a second amount of the first user's personal information, wherein said first amount is different than said second amount and does not include said first information item about the first user; detecting a change of said first information item to an updated first information item; finding a second set of users, including said second user, who have said access to said first information item about the first user; updating local computers that are associated with said second set of users, without updating other local computers that are not associated with said second set of users, including updating a first local computer associated with said second user and not updating a second local computer associated with said third user.