Platform Sovereignty and the Privatisation of Human Identity

Alex Applebee and A. D. Masters

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A Unified Thesis on Corporate Identity Monopolies, Surveillance Capitalism, and the Case for Sovereign Infrastructure

Authors: Alex Applebee and A. D. Masters

OMXUS Research Series -- Papers 22 & 23 (Unified)

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Author's Note

This document exists because of Goal 8 (free internet) (free internet): Internet costs nothing. You ARE the infrastructure.

The argument you are about to read is not abstract. It has a working implementation.

The OMXUS identity system derives your cryptographic identity entirely client-side -- from your name, your date of birth, and secret words you choose. The seed phrase never leaves your browser. No server ever sees it. The same inputs produce the same identity on any device, in any country, forever. No account creation. No email verification. No company in the middle.

The network layer beneath it -- BLE mesh, WiFi direct, LoRa -- means your device is a node. You do not connect to the internet. You are the internet. When you walk into a room, the network gets stronger. When you leave, the network walks with you. No ISP bill. No fibre to the premises. No Telstra. No Comcast. No permission.

These are not proposals. They are running code. The identity derivation is 47KB of JavaScript. The mesh protocol is a BLE advertisement. The emergency response system is a $29 ring.

We wrote this thesis because the academic literature documents the disease but prescribes nothing. Zuboff named surveillance capitalism. Couldry named data colonialism. Halpern named the smartness mandate. None of them built the exit. This paper names the disease and opens the door.

If you are reading this and you work at Google, Apple, Meta, GitHub, or Microsoft: the system you maintain is not a service. It is a cage with a col