Patent ID: 7516418

Claim:
A system embodied on a computer readable storage medium that facilitates automatic tracking of user data and monitoring personally identifiable information (PII) comprising: a keystroke capture component that captures keystrokes in the form of a character string; an extraction component that extracts one or more character substrings having at least a minimum length of characters from the character string; a field extraction component that extracts field character string data from one or more form fields provided by a virtual network location and associates the character string data with respective metatag labels; an input tracking component that tracks substrings which repeat at least q times over a period of time; a string analysis component that flags a character substring as PII based on the minimum length of characters, the number of substring repetitions or metadata associating the substring with a person, wherein the PII uniquely distinguishes a person's data from other personal data stored at the virtual network location; and a display component that provides a visualization of the extracted substrings that is browsable and searchable; wherein a list of substrings is viewable based upon time of entry and the virtual network location where the PII was received.