Digital Identity Management System for Online Privacy Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies are inadequate in protecting users' privacy online due to sophisticated tracking mechanisms that collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII), making it difficult for average users to block data collection, and existing tracker detection methods are ineffective against emerging technologies.
Innovation Solution
A Digital Identity Application Management System (DIAMS) creates alternative identity data sets, allowing users to manage and compartmentalize their online activities using Digital Identities, which are distinct from their Legal Identities, thereby inhibiting unauthorized data collection by maintaining an alternate set of PII.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If tracker detection methods are used to block data collection, then existing tracking objects can be detected, but new and emerging tracking technologies cannot be detected
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by creating digital identity profiles and establishing baseline behavioral patterns before tracking occurs. This allows the system to proactively recognize and protect against both existing and emerging tracking technologies by having protective mechanisms already in place rather than reacting to threats after they are detected
2Ease of operation
If conventional means are used to block PII collection, then some tracking can be blocked, but the average user cannot effectively block data collection
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by automatically managing digital identities, generating privacy protections, and blocking tracking mechanisms without requiring user technical knowledge. The average user simply needs to opt into the service, and the system handles all complex tracking protection operations automatically
Solution Approach 2:
The digital identity acts as an intermediary layer between the user's legal identity and online services. This mediator enables users to interact with services while maintaining privacy, as the digital identity proxies for the user without exposing their legal identity or personal information
3Reliability
If Digital Identity is used to compartmentalize online activities, then privacy is enhanced, but users must manage multiple identity data sets
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple digital identity management functions into a unified platform that automatically handles profile creation, maintenance, and switching. Users benefit from enhanced privacy through compartmentalization without bearing the complexity of managing separate identity systems, as the service consolidates these operations
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to store identity attributes including real identity attributes for a real individual and a digital identity with digital identity data attributes operative as a personal privacy proxy for the real individual. A digital identity management system is hosted to communicate with digital identity applications that observe a common application program interface. Each digital identity application implements at least one digital network function for the digital identity.