A system and method to control the review and publication of affinities. The system and method can be tailored to provide flexibility in the ways that affinity publication is controlled, thereby accommodating different cultural and legal constraints on information access. In one aspect, the system and method allows a person who is the subject of a proposed affinities to review the affinity and then approve or deny publication of the affinity before the affinity is made known to others, thus avoiding inappropriate publication. Advantageously, the system and method enable the person to review the affinity in a context that increases the likelihood that only accurate affinities will be published.