Abstract: A computer-network-based methodology and system for enhancing user control over the storage and transfer of user-personal information data in a network setting which includes both control-distant and control-near, information-data storage sites, and where user-personal information data which the user wishes to move may be held in the control-distant storage site. The methodology, implemented by the associated system, features enabling direct, user-control-access to any user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site, and following such enabling, and under direct user-permitted command, promoting user-command transfer of at least a selected portion of the user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site from the control-distant storage site to the control-near storage site.