Patent ID: 8856916

Claim:
A computer implemented method for blocking unauthorized access to confidential information stored on a specific user's mobile computing device, even to a party that has physical control of the mobile computing device and enters any user identifiers and passwords associated with accessing the confidential information, the method comprising: generating a trigger indicating to prevent access only to the confidential information in response to receiving user-entered input indicating to execute a confidential information protection process; receiving, by the mobile computing device, the trigger indicating to prevent access to the confidential information on the mobile computing device; responsive to receiving the trigger, preventing access to the confidential information on the mobile computing device by any party, until a successful reauthorization by the specific user from an authorized, geo-location associated with the specific user has occurred; responsive to receiving a directive from a user indicating to initiate a reauthorization attempt, attempting to reauthorize to access the confidential information on the mobile computing device, the attempt to reauthorize only being successful responsive to a current geo-location of the mobile computing device at a time of the attempt to reauthorize being an authorized geo-location associated with the specific user; and only in response to the attempt to reauthorize being successful, re-allowing access to the confidential information on the mobile computing device.