Privacy First: Leveraging Your Digital Identity Without Makin' Copies

In today’s world of fake profiles and government surveillance, we might well ask: "Explain to me how I own 'my' personal data." — Or more to the point, how do I revoke access?

The trouble is, in the digital universe, ownership doesn't work as it does with physical objects like your car. Online, you can control your accounts, but once data is copied, it can be stolen, stored, and shared by others beyond your control—forever.

We can't always change how others collect data, but we can protect what's ours. By respectfully separating out the identity portion from the accounts we use, we maintain the right to revoke consent to access. In this way, your identity cannot be bought or sold when the service you use changes hands or terms. By leaving data in place we ensure those already tasked with protecting it, continue to do so.

Privacy First: The Right To Revoke Consent

Consider your University safeguards email for you, protecting your private data; but once you send a copy, it’s out of your hands forever.

Instead of outdated copies, we can leverage ownership to broker answers to private questions directly—nothing is exposed. No passwords are exchanged, no properties are invaded, and there’s no “honey pot” to be stolen.

This account is already yours; you have a username and password. Your healthcare, Gmail, or the DMV—every service that curates private data, is tasked to protect it for you.

This confidence can be used to verify our identity in ways that actually benefit us.

We all have links and profiles we want others to know us by. By confirming and presenting public things, we can establish social confidence through both human oversight and algorithmic measures of account history / depth of interaction.

We can tabulate these things and reflect a rank and score that makes you visibly trusted, even when these properties are not exposed, such as on dating sites.

A "Credible" identity rank offers the same confidence as a physical ID and is easily accessible to anyone online. Individuals can boost this confidence by confirming and connecting more public links and profiles they want others to recognize.

Confidence is a combination of machine intelligence, which analyzes the history and depth of connections, and oversight of human audience, which combines the perspectives from various services.

Anyone submitting forged or stolen properties faces increasing risk and exposure and declining credibility, making profile-fraud unprofitable and ultimately, obsolete.

Separate The Identity Portion Of Accounts

Private data is untouched, and remains distributed in the places it resides. In this approach, identity is respectfully separated from the account. These services do not store or process anything, they have "zero knowledge." This identity must be the one and only to securely assign ownership.

Imagine, instead of handing over passwords and keys, you simply go inside and flip on the porch light. From outside, we can see it’s yours. This is how we confirm an email account—you click a link. So why surrender a password and risk everything you’re protecting?

A public proclamation does not rely on divulging passwords, plus it carries the additional benefit of being something fraudsters fear and avoid.

This separation, pointing at private data, is essential for privacy and control.

This verify method ensures the accountholder securely assigns ownership only once, locking down this property as theirs alone, so it cannot be reused by fraudsters.

Confidence of identity is not in ID cards we print, it's from the digital property used to make those cards. Ironically, ID cards are there for when data is not available.

Digital identity confidence can be privatized, and tabulated into a rank and score that reflect accountability and trust people understand.

Physical ID Is Risky Online

Being compelled to present government-issued ID online, risks your privacy.

ID works at a bank or bar, but online it's easy to fake and cheap to steal. It’s revealing to realize that ID is printed from digital records for when data isn't accessible.

Data must remain locked down for your use only, protected from fraudsters without relying on copies, but that's doesn't mean it is not ours to use and leverage when we need to.

In this model, you assign ownership over the digital properties you use but do not copy them or store any keys to enter them.

Privacy means leaving data where it is, protected by those responsible for it.

Healthcare records, driving history—these must stay with their curators, as no encryption can stop outdated digital copies from being stolen and traded without detection.

Answer Private Questions In Confidence

Only one individual can securely broker questions like "Over 21?", "Vaccinated?", or “Clean driving record?"—answers come securely from the source, not an outdated copy.

This is highly secure, a fraudster would need to breach security at both ends and somehow know which accounts to connect, all before the rightful owner does. If they did, they would remain visibly exposed and doubtlessly detected since there is a continuous connection revealing the culprit.

Only the one true account owner can broker question<->answer pairs between properties. Only the owner can control how others view and share their identity without moving or copying data.

Services can get answers to questions in confidence from the source, and without need for invasive reviews or disputes.

Services Can Improve Revenue, Owners Can Revoke Access

In summary—we can't always change being observed and recorded. But you do own what belongs to you, and it must be leveraged in a way that doesn't expose it.

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