Possession Constraint

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With the need for privacy becoming more widely understood and accepted, there is hope for some systematic change with how are data will be managed. Perhaps regulations like GDPR will be the solution, or given how cozy lawmakers and corporations are, we may migrate to services that grant us sovereignty over our data. To avoid a conflict of interest, the service providing the data sovereignty would need to be independent of the services utilizing that data. This data service would need to be implemented as a decentralized network to avoid an all too powerful monolithic entity.

One more question remains; is this data hosted by a cloud service or physically in people's homes? Obviously cloud storage would be necessary for those who cannot host at home, but home hosting should be the preferred solution as it comes with 4th amendment protection (https://youtu.be/KMtrY6lbjcY / 7:45) and gives a true sense of ownership. As they saying goes, possession is 9/10 of the law.

In order for this decentralized solution to reach the general public, it needs to be embedded in consumer electronics. We can't expect the average person to install a server and port forward their router, nor can we expect them to purchase a very expensive appliance. As a result a core design constraint of this project is to target low cost consumer electronics. The other solutions out there don't seem to follow this same constraint, and therefore have limited potential. As a benchmark, the raspberry pi zero v1.3 is used.