Anonymization Overlay Network for Crime Remittance Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computer networks lack effective anonymization methods for protecting user identities and privacy, especially in content sharing platforms, where user data can be traced and personally identifiable information is stored, compromising user security and privacy.
Innovation Solution
An anonymization overlay network is introduced, using anonymous user identifiers and incognito remittances to create an end-to-end anonymous communication channel, where mobile devices send location data to a server that determines proximity to events without revealing user identities, allowing secure and private data exchange about events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional content sharing platforms are used to exchange event data, then data exchange functionality is provided, but user privacy and security are compromised due to traceable communications and stored personally identifiable information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an anonymization overlay network as an intermediary layer between users and the event data exchange system. This intermediary assigns anonymous identifiers to users, allowing data exchange while preventing direct identification. The overlay network mediates all communications, ensuring that personally identifiable information is not exposed to other users or stored in a traceable manner, thus resolving the contradiction between maintaining anonymity and enabling functional data exchange.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments user identity into two distinct parts: personally identifiable information (kept private and isolated) and anonymous identifiers (used for communication and data exchange). This segmentation allows the system to maintain functional capabilities through anonymous identifiers while protecting user privacy by isolating personally identifiable information, preventing its exposure during event data exchanges.
2Reliability
If anonymous identifiers are used to protect user privacy, then user security is improved, but the ability to distribute remittances to specific users is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs the anonymization overlay network as an intermediary that bridges anonymous identifiers and remittance distribution. The overlay network receives remittance requests, matches them with the appropriate anonymous user identifiers, and facilitates secure transfer without exposing personally identifiable information. This intermediary mechanism enables automated remittance distribution to anonymous users while maintaining their security and anonymity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where remittance distribution is triggered by verified event data submissions. When a user submits credible event information, the system provides feedback in the form of automated remittance to that user's anonymous identifier. This feedback loop ensures that remittances are distributed correctly to the intended anonymous users based on their contributions, resolving the contradiction between anonymity and operational ease in remittance distribution.
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AI summary
A server computing device configured to receive, via an anonymization network and from a first mobile computing device that determines a location from a set of locations of the first mobile computing device is within a threshold distance of an event, a proximity indication that a first user associated with the first mobile computing device is proximate to the event; in response to receiving an indication of a remittance for the event from a second user, generate an association between the remittance and the event; in response to receiving descriptive data that is descriptive of the event, send the descriptive data to a second mobile computing device of the second user; and in response to receiving an indication to release the remittance, send a message that executes a transaction that transfers at least a portion of the amount of the remittance to an account associated with the first user.