Patent ID: 8631038

Claim:
In a computer operating environment, a method for managing digital identity information, comprising the computer-assisted steps of: obtaining from a user first digital identity information of the user; causing the first digital identity information to be placed in a first profile in a database; obtaining from the user second digital identity information of the user; causing the second digital identity information to be placed in a second profile in the database, both the first and second profiles existing in a safe object of the database, the safe object existing in a vault object of the database; providing the user with access rights to the digital identity information of the first and second profiles in the safe object to allow the user to update the digital identity information while also (1) wholly denying any system administrator of the computer operating environment access rights to the digital identity information of the first and second profiles in the safe object and (2) granting at least one system administrator access rights to the vault object to manage the safe object in the vault; and at the exclusion of the any system administrator, providing an entity other than the user with read-only access to one of the first and second profiles of the user in response to instructions from the user.