Abstract

Privacy and data-protection rules are mostly enforced by policy, contracts, region settings and audits after data has already moved. These rules include purpose limitation, consent, cross-border transfer limits and data residency. Today’s privacy tools leave several gaps:

  • masked e-mail addresses, virtual numbers and payment tokens hide identifiers but can be reused for other purposes, carried across borders or linked for profiling;
  • network and cloud controls are rules that can be bypassed;
  • regulators cannot independently verify compliance.

AI assistants, agents and analytics pipelines now move personal data between services, regions and purposes at machine speed, which makes these gaps more serious.

This disclosure describes an architecture that makes those rules executable at the moment data would move:

  • Virtual identities. A person is represented by one or more virtual identities created inside a secure enclave (TEE, HSM or secure element). Raw phone numbers, e-mail addresses and device IDs never appear in operational traffic.
  • Compliance tokens.Each identity is bound to compliance tokens that encode:
    • jurisdiction (country, region, carrier, IP prefix or autonomous system);
    • lawful purpose;
    • consent;
    • expiry.
  • Multiple purposes and identities. Multi-purpose tokens require several purposes and jurisdictions to validate together. A person can hold several concurrent, cryptographically isolated identities.
  • Gate before any network primitive.No network primitive can start until the enclave validates every bound token. Primitives include:
    • socket open, DNS query, TLS or QUIC handshake (including 0-RTT);
    • SIP INVITE, SMTP send, HTTP or API call, WebRTC offer;
    • VPN or tunnel bring-up, radio bearer setup;
    • payment authorization, sensor read or AI data request.
  • One-time authorization. Only after validation does the enclave release a one-time authorization to a kernel enforcement point (eBPF, netfilter or XDP), a SIM or baseband, a gateway or an API enforcement point. Otherwise the primitive is blocked and no traffic leaves.
  • Receipts before the first packet. Each validation produces a ledger-anchored receipt with pseudonymized metadata, anchored before the first packet is forwarded. It can be anchored to both carrier and regulator ledgers. Regulators verify compliance through a query interface without seeing identities or content.
  • Provenance and teardown. Flows carry enclave-signed provenance and hop counters. They are torn down on expiry or revocation.
  • Bypass resistance. The design resists tunnelling, proxy chains, tethering, side radios, radio-technology downgrade, rogue cells, replay and rollback. Tokens can require both classical and post-quantum signatures. Offline and emergency modes use short-lived tokens and authority-signed artefacts with full logging.

The claims are organized by deployment, from claim 1 to claim 72, with lettered sub-claims adding hard gates and anti-bypass features. They cover:

  • Endpoint devices: smartphones, feature phones, satellite handsets and terminals, laptops, routers, payment terminals, vehicles and V2X, wearables and AR/VR, drones, maritime and aviation endpoints.
  • Networks and servers: server and API gates, carrier cores and mobile towers, sensors and actuators.
  • Applications and platforms: advertising SDKs, messaging and conferencing apps, banking and UPI apps, healthcare, hospitality, SaaS, e-mail, cloud, IoT, enterprise VPN and zero trust, SCADA, blockchain, CDN and DNS, privacy-preserving web forms and callback forms.
  • Data and AI: self-destructing data objects, data capsules, coalition tokens, law-bound execution, and an AI guardian inside the enclave that blocks purpose drift such as bulk export of personal data to advertising platforms.

Industry and roadmap relevance (AI-generated). This section was generated with AI assistance and describes technical relevance only. Readers must cross-check it against the original PCT filing on WIPO PATENTSCOPE and official company sources before drawing any conclusion. Naming a company or product is not an endorsement, a validation, a criticism or a statement of infringement, and no company named is affiliated with the inventor. These are potential integration scenarios, not confirmed company implementations or product commitments.

Current public directions align with the architecture’s aim of making data location and use provable:

  • Data residency and sovereign cloud:
    • Microsoft’s EU Data Boundary, completed in February 2025, with Anthropic models in Copilot announced to move inside it.
    • OpenAI’s European data residency, launched in February 2025.
    • Gemini on Vertex AI with EU regional endpoints.
    • Claude in EU regions through AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.
    • The AWS European Sovereign Cloud, launched in January 2026.
  • Telecom identity and network APIs:
    • Aduna, Ericsson’s joint venture with operators including AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Jio and Airtel.
    • Orange LiveNet’s identity and anti-fraud APIs.
    • Nokia Network as Code.
  • Privacy identifiers: Apple Private Relay and Hide My Email.
  • Payment tokenization: Visa, Mastercard and NPCI UPI.
  • Consent-based business messaging: Twilio, Sinch and WhatsApp Business.
  • Advertising consent frameworks.

In each case the architecture adds per-flow cryptographic enforcement of purpose, jurisdiction and consent, plus receipts a regulator can verify independently.

The mechanisms may support objectives associated with:

  • GDPR: Articles 5–7 (purpose limitation, minimization, consent), Articles 22 and 25 (automated decisions, data protection by design) and Articles 44–49 (international transfers).
  • Other European rules: the ePrivacy Directive, the Digital Services Act, the EU AI Act, PSD2/PSD3, NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act and the Data Act.
  • Outside Europe: India’s DPDP Act and U.S. HIPAA.

Technical alignment does not itself establish regulatory compliance.

This disclosure is based on PCT/IB2025/059031 (WO 2025/215626, filed 18 September 2025, published 16 October 2025). It is an early filing in the family that includes the Mothership application PCT/IB2026/055615, filed 4 June 2026 and publicly disclosed 16 July 2026. The inventor is open to acquihire or strategic collaboration.

Keywords: AI safety; AI data governance; privacy engineering; privacy by design; privacy-enhancing technologies; purpose limitation; purpose-based access control; consent enforcement; consent receipts; data residency; data sovereignty; data localization; sovereign cloud; cross-border data transfer control; jurisdiction-aware networking; compliance tokens; verifiable credentials; selective disclosure; virtual identities; pseudonymous identifiers; pairwise identifiers; virtual numbers; masked e-mail; number masking; payment tokenization; virtual payment numbers; zero-trust networking; microsegmentation; kernel network enforcement; eBPF; netfilter; XDP; socket-level policy; DNS filtering; SIP admission control; session border controller; SMTP policy; API gateway policy; data loss prevention; eSIM; eUICC; baseband security; IMSI catcher defence; RAT downgrade; roaming data control; lawful intercept; secure enclave; TEE; Intel SGX; Arm TrustZone; HSM; measured boot; remote attestation; monotonic counters; post-quantum signatures; ML-DSA; ML-KEM; hybrid signatures; transparency log; tamper-evident ledger; regulator audit; privacy-preserving audit; crypto-shredding; data usage control; AI guardian; AI profiling control; purpose drift detection; advertising consent; real-time bidding privacy; open banking; UPI; telematics privacy; drone remote ID; SCADA security; GDPR; ePrivacy; DSA; EU AI Act; PSD3; NIS2; DPDPA; HIPAA; EU Data Boundary; data residency in Europe; Vertex AI; AWS Bedrock; Aduna; CAMARA; Orange LiveNet; Network as Code; Private Relay; Hide My Email

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