Identity Protection

摘要

Some embodiments provide holistic and comprehensive identity protection solutions. The solutions protect user identity by screening the information trail that a user leaves behind online in order to suppress or neutralize information crumbs that can subsequently be used to harm the user. The solutions audit user privacy settings, established online friends and contacts, and friend and contact activity online to limit the exposure and disclosure of user information online. The solutions perform white-hat penetration tests. The solutions report on user risk based on available online information. The solutions validate completed transactions based on monitored user movements and site visits. The solutions provide a crowd-sourced approach to identify risk based on common transactions and visits of others. The solutions prevent identity theft by verifying that disbursements are made to the correct entity.

主权项

1. A method of identity protection, the method comprising:
providing an identity protection front-end application to a particular user for installation on a network enabled device of the particular user; receiving a plurality of posts linked to an account of the particular user from an online site at an identity protection back-end machine over the Internet, the back-end machine comprising a microprocessor and a memory that stores a set of protected categories, wherein the microprocessor
extracts at least one particular post from the plurality of posts comprising a disclosure violating a particular protected category from the set of protected categories;generates an identity protection alert comprising the particular post, potential harm from the particular host, and a remediation step comprising a link for resolving violation of the particular category from the particular post; andtransmits the identity protection alert over a network connection to the particular user device, wherein the alert activates the front-end application to cause the identity protection alert to display on the particular user device and to further cause the back-end machine to connect to the online site over the Internet and modify the particular post in response to the particular user invoking the remediation step link within said alert.