Abstract: Disclosed herein are privacy protection systems and related methods for providing subscribers of the system or method, such as credit card issuers, banks, etc., independent verification of the identity of individuals attempting to do business with the subscriber. The independent verification disclosed herein does not rely solely on the information accessible or maintained by an entity that issued a piece of identification data to the individual. Instead, disclosed systems and methods may not only check with the entity that issued the piece(s) of identification data presented by a user to identify himself, but also may review the records of that issuing entity such that older records can be actively compared to current records in an effort to determine if the currently issued identification data is correct.

Abstract: A privacy protection method comprising receiving identification data to identify a user of a privacy protection system, receiving at least one account associated with the user, receiving, from at least one subscriber, at least one account associated with the subscriber, comparing the user accounts with the subscriber accounts to determine whether any user accounts correspond to at least one subscriber account, verifying the identity of the user using the identification data and identifying to the at least one subscriber that the user as authorized to use the privacy protection system.