Modern organisations are built around visibility. We monitor. We analyse. We track. We measure. We justify these activities as necessary for security, compliance, operations and customer service. But what if we’ve mistaken visibility for necessity? For decades, digital systems have been designed on the assumption that providers must observe users in order to deliver services.…
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Every time we interact online, a record is created. A login. A purchase. A search. A message. A click. Most of us accept this as a normal part of digital life. But why? Why should every interaction generate a permanent trail? Why should organisations be expected to collect it? And why should customers accept the…
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Every few weeks another organisation asks me to prove who I am. My bank knows. My employer knows. My insurer knows. My airline knows. Government departments know. Countless websites know. The obvious question is: Why is my identity stored in so many places? For decades we have accepted a simple assumption. If an organisation needs…
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Every person knows this feeling. You book a holiday. You open a bank account. You use a mobile app. You join a loyalty programme. You visit a website. Each interaction comes with an invisible transaction. Your information in exchange for a service. Most of us have become so accustomed to this arrangement that we rarely…
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When I started designing All Me in 2023, I believed the primary problem I was trying to solve was privacy. At the time, my focus was on creating a safer digital environment for people. The concerns were familiar ones: surveillance-based business models, identity exposure, behavioural profiling, algorithmic manipulation and the growing imbalance between platforms and…
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The engineering work undertaken for All me has produced a set of architectural solutions that extend far beyond the requirements of a single application. During the development process, it became clear that the mechanisms required to deliver user independent identity, zero metadata transport, blind provider operation and trustless commercial execution form a generalisable architecture. This…
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Digital commerce is about to undergo its most profound shift since the invention of the web. For thirty years, we have accepted a GUI?centric world: websites, apps, checkout flows, identity accounts, behavioural tracking, and advertising?driven persuasion. These structures were never inevitable they were inherited. Karl A L Smith paper, Situational Awareness Commerce: A Post?GUI Model…
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Over the past decade, digital communication has been shaped by a simple assumption: providers must see everything. Identity, metadata, behavioural signals, device fingerprints, timestamps visibility has been treated as a prerequisite for trust. But what if visibility is the problem? In high-risk environments, social platforms, organisational communication, and investigative contexts, visibility creates structural vulnerabilities: impersonation,…
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Situational Awareness Commerce: A Post GUI Model for Object Driven Identity Free Transactions has now been formally archived by SSRN. This paper documents the evolution of concepts first developed in 2016 through IoT3, Ubiquity and Smart Living research, and shows how those early models matured into a fully articulated commercial interaction framework. Situational Awareness Commerce…
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ICCA: A New Architecture for Privacy in Digital Commerce Digital commerce has reached a turning point. For more than two decades, online transactions have relied on identity as their foundation. Every purchase, delivery and support interaction has been tied to names, addresses, accounts and behavioural profiles. This model has created convenience, but it has also…
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