Islets Protect Sensitive IoT Information: Verifiably Ending Use of Sensitive IoT Information for (Foreign) Mass Surveillance and Thereby Fostering (International) Commerce

Abstract

Islets is a system for users to coordinate with IoT devices and other users. They serve two important functions 1) protect sensitive citizen information and 2) foster international commerce.IoT poses extreme challenges for sensitive personal information, including psychological, sexual, social, financial, legal, and medical. Enormous amounts of sensitive information is being stored in datacenters controlled by foreign-domiciled companies and extensively sold on the market by data brokers.Consumer health and medical IoT are becoming ever more intimate. Many people have pacemakers and even more have insulin pumps. Soon mixed reality glasses are likely to become as common as cell phones because they offer heads-up, hands-free, transparent operation. 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. Before long, many workers and military personnel may not be competitive unless they have brain implants.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 information in their datacenters. EU, China, and other nations are absolutely determined to verifiably end mass surveillance of the their citizens by foreign intelligence agencies using datacenters of foreign-domiciled companies. However, information stored in the datacenters of foreign domiciled corporations will inevitably become accessible to the government in which the company is domiciled. Consequently corporations that store sensitive information in their datacenters must be domestically incorporated to ensure that foreign intelligence agencies do not have bulk access to the information. Islets provide a means for trans-national companies to escape this trap by storing sensitive information of users IoT in Islets and only storing non-sensitive information in their datacenters.