Safety-Zones^®

Providing the Ways to Information & Identity Theft Protection*

Information Theft Protection

       As in serving the consumer, the corporate world also needs a process that allows safe access to private information transmitted over the Web, such as medical records and credit reports, provided in a way that is simple to understand and manage, user-friendly, and can expand with ease to include additional needs, like insurance.

In the uses noted above the account holder would likely be company personnel transacting day-to-day business, or automated electronic accounts using Safety-Zones to verify end-to-end users before creating any business transaction.

Doing business this way, with Safety-Zones, is just a matter of allowing the account holder to use "permission gates" in a control circuit that are not in the primary and secure transaction network, but control functions or transactions within it.

Government entities (cities and towns, etc.) also need a proper means for the safe access and of driver's licenses, birth certificates and marriage licenses.

Examples of Use

Credit reporting
The application of Safety-Zones for credit reports and reporting would ensure that no one other than the account holder or other approved entity could gain access to a credit report, and no report about a false user (stolen identity user) could ever be entered, good or bad.

Drivers licenses
Public record agencies could use Safety-Zones to ensure that information about an individual is not accessed in a way that harms the public good, or the entity of record. For example, access to a driver's ID and records would be limited only to an authorized list of entities provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in a published off-site location, similar to a read-only and viewable website common to all accounts. The account holder's permission gate would use this website's secure transaction equivalent to permit only these entities access, denying requests from all others.

Birth certificates and marriage licenses
Public record agencies could also use Safety-Zones to ensure that information about an individual is not accessed in a way that harms the public good, or the entity of record. Access to a birth certificate or marriage license could also be limited to authorized entities as in the above example.

Medical records
Private record agencies could use Safety-Zones to ensure that information about an individual is not accessed to violate their privacy. Here again, access would be limited to a published list of authorized entities or by the above ID method.

 

B&M	Internet	.	On	Off	USA
-Approved User List-		.	On	Off	Zip Code
Agency 1		41	On	Off	33094
Agency 9		42	On	Off	98144
Agency 3		43	On	Off	71432
User 1		51	On	Off	51862
User 6		52	On	Off	21227
Provider 1		61	On	Off	06991
Provider 13		62	On	Off	68195

Exhibit D

With the obvious need to increase electronic security while attempting to be 'transparent' and informative, Exhibit D shows how we might view a website page provided by one of the above records providers. The display shows a small sample of the agencies, users and providers that are approved to read the confidential records under their care.

The use of On/Off indicators could be used to show that overall use is permitted because it falls within a designated time frame that the subject records may be accessed; they could also show when records are being accessed by a particular agency, user or provider. The Zip Code indicates when an agency, user or provider is accessing records and that its electronic ID has been verified for security, auditing and/or quality control purposes.

With slight variation Safety-Zones could also be used for transferring or approving the transfer of information, peer-to-peer or party-to-party. Given this ability, secure information may be brought directly to and from actual users, not just to their computers, through a user defined zone of safety. In fact, Safety-Zones might be considered as a single VPN (virtual private network), or used as part of an established VPN, or used to provide the proper connection between VPNs.

Other Uses? -- Voting!

       A less obvious application for Safety-Zones is to provide proof of identity for voting purposes, insuring one person has one vote, while providing a safe zone for voting, and simultaneously providing a traceable and verifiable source and destination of each vote (or set of votes), wherever it may be approved to come from and be approved to go to.