Patent ID: 7587366

Claim:
A secure information repository system, comprising: a trusted third party having data storage for securely storing encrypted information, associated with an account holder; a deposit system for securely depositing encrypted information into the data storage by the account holder; a system structured and arranged to allow the account holder to designate information provided by the account holder to the trusted third party as private, shareable, and commercial, wherein: the private information is information accessible to the account holder but not to a second party; the sharable information is information accessible to the account holder and the second party as provided by contract; and the commercial information is information accessible to the account holder and the second party when the second party pays a fee for the commercial information; a system of the trusted third party for allowing the account holder to provide permission to the second party to read an agreed upon set of personal information; an information access system for accessing the encrypted information stored in the data storage; an information withdrawal system for removing the encrypted information stored in the data storage; and a tracking system for logging at least any one of a deposit to the data storage, a withdrawal from the data storage, a deletion to the data storage, an account creation, an account deletion, and an access to the data storage, wherein the account holder is an owner of personal data and the system allows the owner of personal data to control and manage access and dissemination of the personal data such that the trusted third party prevents the second party from seeing designated personal information and makes available to the second party designated information of the account holder.