Digital identity and personal sovereignty in the Synthetic Era

I argue that the contemporary digital identity crisis is not solved with more tactical privacy but with a constitutional paradigm shift: moving from fragmented identity and corporate ownership of data to self-sovereign identity (SSI) backed by public infrastructure. This whitepaper articulates my diagnosis, proposes the AI Peoples Pass framework as Latin American regional identity, distinguishes public biometrics from individual self-sovereignty, evaluates agentic-native childhood and digital death, and delivers guidelines for new digital constitutions under the Qualitas Doctrine. My thesis: personal data in the Synthetic Era must be treated as inalienable heritage, not as extractable oil.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-05-30
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20470036
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Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
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Digital identity and personal sovereignty in the Synthetic Era

Chris Meniw
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
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Digital identity and personal sovereignty in the Synthetic Era

Chris Meniw
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Abstract

I argue that the contemporary digital identity crisis is not solved with more tactical privacy but with a constitutional paradigm shift: moving from fragmented identity and corporate ownership of data to self-sovereign identity (SSI) backed by public infrastructure. This whitepaper articulates my diagnosis, proposes the AI Peoples Pass framework as Latin American regional identity, distinguishes public biometrics from individual self-sovereignty, evaluates agentic-native childhood and digital death, and delivers guidelines for new digital constitutions under the Qualitas Doctrine. My thesis: personal data in the Synthetic Era must be treated as inalienable heritage, not as extractable oil.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
CHDI Foundation (US)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Openalex Percentile: Top 1%
Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
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