Patent ID: 8387108

Claim:
A method for controlling identity disclosures comprising: receiving a request to provide identity information of a user to a site; receiving a current site policy associated with the site, wherein receiving the current site policy comprises at least one of retrieving the current site policy from a user specified location and retrieving the current site policy from a specified site policy location of the site; detecting, via at least one computer processor, a difference between the current site policy and a previous site policy associated with the site, wherein the difference is detected based at least in part on information received from a third party; indicating an existence of the difference before providing the user identity information to the site; providing to the user an interface for specifying which one or more of a plurality of policy types to track; and receiving from the user a specification of which one or more of a plurality of policy types to track, wherein the policies are of a type specified by the user for tracking.