Patent ID: 8489511

Claim:
A method for a privacy organization to manage a privacy interest for a person, comprising: acquiring via a website information about the person, wherein the information includes personal information about the person or transactional information about the person; digitally storing the information about the person as protected information in a secure account for the person within a database accessible by the privacy organization and accessible through the website by the person; automatically coding a digital profile for the person using the acquired protected information to create an abstracted profile code for the person using at least some of the acquired protected information; digitally storing the abstracted profile code of the person in the secure account within the database; automatically entering the protected information into notices asserting data ownership over the protected information for the person; asserting data ownership over the protected information for the person, including providing the notice that the person is asserting data ownership over the protected information to entities capable of collecting data about the person from transactions, interactions or Internet activity, or capable of using or selling collected data about the person; providing the abstracted profile code to select entities; and receiving from the select entities consideration for the person in exchange for allowing the select entities to use the abstracted profile code with at least some of the protected information, wherein acquiring via the website information about the person includes: receiving information from the person; allowing the person to view and edit the protected information in the secure account; receiving instructions from the person for managing the protected information, wherein the instructions include instructions for sending the notice and selecting the select entities to whom the abstracted profile code is sent; and delivering code for installation on an electronic device of the person, receiving the information about the person from the electronic device operating on the installed code including receiving web-browsing activity using the electronic device, and storing the information received from the electronic device into the secure account.