Towards a Platform for Mastering Personal Sovereignty

arXiv:2609.28736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ongoing digital transformation of work, administration, health, mobility, and social interaction is profoundly reshaping everyday life, steadily shifting control from individuals to large platform providers. Although data is often labeled the "gold of the 21st century", its real value is realized through services that access, combine, and exploit it. Today, individuals have little sovereignty: life events (e.g., changing an address, insurance, job, or marital status) require fragmented, repetitive interactions across numerous systems, leaving users overwhelmed rather than empowered. We argue for a fundamental rethinking of this situation and propose a virtual, trustworthy platform, called "MyVirtualME" that acts on behalf of the human individual towards companies, administrations, and other actors. This platform centers services, data, permissions, and data usage around humans, not foreign actors, allowing genuine control and transparency. Our vision goes beyond a pure data focus: supported by trusted services ranging from basic notifications to intelligent assistants, MyVirtualME aims to reduce digital bureaucracy, improve and even automate interactions, and support informed oversight of an individual's health, financial, and administrative situation. We firmly believe that a human-centered MyVirtualME is essential for restoring personal sovereignty in our digital future.

Proposes a platform to restore personal sovereignty.

The proposal aims to restore personal control over digital interactions by centralizing user data and permissions in a human-centered platform. This could reduce digital bureaucracy and empower users, improving their autonomy and transparency with external entities. The evidence is conceptual and future-oriented, so confidence is moderate.

This is an early-stage vision paper proposing a concept, not a deployed system or measured result. The implication, if realized, would be mildly positive for individual empowerment, but there is no evidence of implementation, adoption, or how the platform would avoid becoming another centralized control point.

The paper identifies a current negative trend of individuals losing control to platform providers. It then proposes a conceptual AI-powered platform designed to empower individuals and restore personal sovereignty. The implications are optimistic for human flourishing if such a platform is successfully implemented, although it is still a vision.

SOURCE     arXiv cs.CY (Computers and Society) (tier 1)
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EVIDENCE   2 extracted excerpts
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MODEL RUN  4 runs, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE      +6  (Mixed or uncertain)
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CONFIDENCE 69%