Anonymity-preserving reciprocal vetting from a system perspective

摘要

A vetting service protects personal information while nonetheless allowing its authorized use to perform background investigations of consenting participants. Raw background search results are filtered, redacted, and otherwise sanitized in compliance with an agreement by the participants, to produce background reports.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a processor; a memory in operable communication with the processor, the memory configured by instructions residing in the memory for causing the processor to perform a method of providing anonymity-preserving reciprocal vetting services to persons who do not know each other's offline identities but whose online identities have been identified to each other, the method including the steps of:
electronically noting an agreement between a first person and a second person to disclose respective personally identifying information;receiving electronically, from the first person, first personally identifying information which identifies the first person via offline identity information and which is unknown to the second person;receiving electronically, from the second person, second personally identifying information which identifies the second person via offline identity information and which is unknown to the first person;using the first personally identifying information to obtain a first background search result containing background information of the first person; andusing the second personally identifying information to obtain a second background search result containing background information of the second person;wherein the persons participating in the agreement are identified to one another by an online identity so that each person entering the agreement has the ability to limit disclosure of their own personally identifying information, by limiting such disclosure to person(s) identified in the agreement and to background search result provider(s), rather than allowing wider disclosure of their personally identifying information; andwherein the method is fully reciprocal and wherein each using step uses the respective personally identifying information to obtain a respective background search result containing background information of the respective person which includes at least one of the following: criminal history information, marital status information.