Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for security-based presentation in client application software. A network includes one or more client systems coupled to one or more servers, a server including an application adapted to compare a request received from a client application for particular data, metadata and descriptors, together with authorization information, against the access control codes, keys or lists stored in a server-based set of tables or lists and use the results of the comparison to reply to the request affirmatively with the data, metadata and descriptors or negatively with either an error code, error message or null result.

Abstract: A system and method for granting and transmitting access rights to data, the method includes steps of: receiving a request for information relating to a specified individual, wherein the request identifies a person requesting the information; determining the degree of relationship between the person requesting the information and the individual to whom the information relates; retrieving access rights for the requesting person from a repository; determining the owner of the rights as well as the rights that owner has granted to secondary parties; and determining, managing and transmitting to second parties said access rights modified to permit or deny the second party to further transmit, modify, change or delete owner's information to third parties.