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.
Authors
- Chris Meniw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4417-1944)
Institutions
- CHDI Foundation (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-05-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20470036
- Primary Topic
- Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00