摘要 |
A method and apparatus ( 10 ) for a privacy system ( 12 ) that facilitates anonymous service transactions globally between a customer ( 20 ) and a service merchant ( 22 ) and that minimizes the theft of personally sensitive identity data. The privacy system ( 12 ) allows the customer ( 20 ) to receive service ( 60 ) from the merchant ( 22 ) over the Internet without the merchant ( 22 ) receiving and keeping the identity data, bankcard information and other personally sensitive Id theft prone data of the customer ( 20 ). Invention also discloses a private information system on Internet using an anonymous identifier to store private information that minimizes the theft of personally sensitive identity data. The anonymous identifier is self-created by a person to assure anonymity to the person to facilitate anonymous and secure transactions over the Internet.
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