Citadels: Increased Robustness and Better Information Integration Than Datacenters of Competing Companies

Islets is a system for citizens to coordinate with IoT devices and other citizens while protecting their sensitive information and fostering (international) commerce. IoT poses extreme security and privacy challenges for sensitive personal information, including psychological, sexual, social, financial, legal, and medical. Enormous amounts of sensitive information that can be used against citizens is being stored in datacenters controlled by foreign-domiciled companies and extensively sold on multiple markets by data brokers. Consumer health and medical IoT involve the most sensitive of information that can be used against citizens. For example, pacemakers and insulin pumps are becoming ever more common. Mixed-reality glasses are likely to become as common as cell phones because they offer heads-up, hands-free, transparent operation. Further out, DARPA is developing an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world. Many workers and military personnel may someday not be competitive if they lack a brain prosthetic.IoT will soon be in almost all manufactured devices thereby threatening the economic survival of tans-national manufacturers as well as Internet companies because of their current Internet business model of storing the most sensitive of personal information in their datacenters from IoT devices. Cyberspace Administration of China, European Court of Justice and other national governments have announced their intention to verifiably end mass surveillance of their citizens by foreign governments using datacenters of foreign-domiciled companies because information stored in the datacenters of foreign domiciled corporations will inevitably at some future time become accessible to the government of the country in which the company is domiciled. Consequently, companies that store sensitive information in their datacenters must be domestically incorporated to be able to verify that foreign governments do not have bulk access to the information. Islets are a means for trans-national companies (including both IoT manufacturers and Internet service providers) to escape this trap by storing sensitive information of users' IoT devices in Islets and storing only non-sensitive information in their datacenters.Sensitive information can be stored locally in Islets on users' own equipment encrypted with user keys and can be backed up elsewhere encrypted using users' keys. Furthermore, users can share Islet information that they select with other parties -- encrypted with the public keys of other parties so that it be read only by the intended party.Islets can improve information coordination over current systems that cannot coordinate among numerous competing services (such as Facebook and Google) and numerous fiercely competing merchants (such as Amazon, Home Depot, and Walmart using multiple IoT devices from competing manufacturers (such as LG, Nest, Samsung, and Whirlpool). Islet-facilitated coordination can include integration of commerce (such as home, retail, food, travel, and auto), wellness (such as recreation, biometrics, nutrition, exercise, spirituality, medical, and learning), finance (such as banking, investments, and taxes), IoT (such as food management, security, energy management, infotainment, transportation, and communication), social (such as schedule, friends, and family), and work (such as contacts, schedule, and colleagues). Islets can provide lower communications cost than current systems because it is not necessary for users and their IoT devices to always communicate with datacenters.[6][14][22] Islets also can provide faster response and more robustness because local operations can be faster and more reliable than being required to always use communication links with potentially-overloaded remote datacenters.Islets need a convenient, effective, high-profitable business model, which must be more effective and efficient than the current datacenters system based on consumer surveillance to improve advertising targeting. Instead, an Islet running on a consumer's equipment can seek out and help evaluate appropriate offers from commerce agents. Such commerce agents can earn commissions and fees from merchants when the referral is exercised. Consequently, merchants will no longer be burdened by having to pay for grossly inefficient advertising that annoys potential customers. Instead, businesses can provide their information to commerce agents that aggregate and package it for users' Islets to be used in evaluating offers that can be filtered and ranked according to citizen needs and preferences. All of the convenience currently available through individual company access points must be improved in effectiveness and response time including scalable search and operations coordinate use of commercial datacenters (such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn) as well as other Islets.Outside of citizens' Islets information protected against self-incrimination, governments (through subpoena) will be able to obtain sufficient information for law enforcement including financial transactions, physical movements outside the home, and cell tower tracking information.