Sovereign Citizen Alliance

Abstract

The present project strives to improve the readiness of European citizens for the digital age in supporting and building capacity development in the field of information security awareness, literacy and risk management. As stated in the recitals of the GDPR, the protection of basic freedoms and rights need to be realized by the protection of the digital identity. This objective lies at the core of this project idea. To achieve this end, the project will follow an iterative approach: First, by increasing awareness, participants will be informed and sensitized for safety critical behavior in the digital world. Second, by securing compliance, participants will learn to comply to certain behaviors and internalize safe work flows and conducts in the digital world. Further participants will be facilitated to identify breaches of their personal data and enforce their right of privacy. Finally, in the third stage, participants shall be enabled to truly “act sovereign”, i.e. to act upon their knowledge, to exert their citizen and judicial rights and to gain sovereignty about their digital actions and identity. Sovereignty in the digital realm means ownership and control over data and information. Fraudsters, criminals and malicious authorities are increasingly abusing the shortfall of proper risk understanding, weaponizing trusting individuals for their own benefit.