Patent ID: 8225395

Claim:
A method for detecting an indication of a suspicious event associated with personal information of a child, comprising: receiving personal information representing a social security number of the child, a name of the child, and a home address of the child; receiving parent personal information representing contact information for a parent of the child; creating a child file for the child and storing the child file on a non-transient computer-readable medium, the child file for the child comprising the personal information representing the social security number of the child and the name of the child; in response to creating the child file for the child, locking the child file for the child by association an electric notice with the child file for the child to prevent credit data stored in at least one database and asssociated with at least part of the personal information of the child from being used to establish credit with a commercial entity, wherein the electronic notice indicates that the commercial entity requesting access to the credit data is prohibited from using the personal information to access the credit data; monitoring the child file and data stored in the at least one database for the indication of the suspicious event using the personal information representing the social security number of the child, the at least one database comprising criminal data representing physical addresses of a plurality of criminals and the credit data comprising a plurality of credit files, the suspicious event comprising at least one of: the criminal data indicating at least one of the plurality of criminals is associated with a physical address within a pre-set radius of the home address for the child; an indication of an inquiry comprising at least part of the personal information of the child; or an indication of the social security number of the child associated with at least one of the plurality of credit files; and transmitting a notification to the parent using the parent personal information representing contact information for the parent, the notification being transmitted after detecting the indication of the suspicious event, the notification comprising information associated with the indication of the suspicious event.