Personal digital information (PDI) is created in the ordinary course of life. It appears when a person searches for something, sends a message, walks through town with a phone in their pocket, or pauses on a website. This information comes from the person, not from the institution that happens to record it. Yet modern systems have treated it as a free resource that anyone may take, store, or use without asking permission.
Sovereign Data Licensing begins by correcting this assumption. Personal digital information belongs to the individual who generates it, and no institution may use it without a license. A license states what information is being used, for what purpose, for how long, and what compensation is owed. The business does not own the information and never gains permanent rights to it.
This change does not threaten the real economy. It strengthens it. When companies can no longer treat human information as a cost-free input, the value does not disappear. It returns to the people who produced it. A decline in corporate profit is not a decline in the economy, because the economy is people. When value moves from large institutions into millions of small accounts, communities become steadier, debt burdens shrink, and local spending increases. Nothing collapses. The flow simply changes direction.
Licensing is not a new idea. People license land, tools, creative work, and software every day. Allowing use without giving up ownership is already normal. Sovereign Data Licensing applies this familiar pattern to personal digital information. It also records each data event at the moment it is created so that the individual’s rights cannot be bypassed later. This record makes the licensing system enforceable and keeps ownership clear.
This is the starting point. It does not create new money or introduce instability. It restores rightful control, makes use conditional and accountable, and ensures that the benefits of the digital world return to the people who make it possible.
If Personal Digital Information (PDI) is not property but digital personhood, then every use of it must follow person-based rules, not property-based rules. PDI cannot be seized, assumed, bundled, inherited, transferred, or captured. It can only be licensed, and only by the individual whose life, patterns, and identity it represents.
Under digital personhood, there is no circumstance in which a corporation, government, platform, advertiser, or algorithm has any inherent right to your PDI.
Only the person can authorize its use. Everything else is use without authority.
These are not privacy terms. These are sovereignty terms.
If the individual does not choose a licensed use, that use does not exist.
Every digital action is identity labor.
Labor cannot be taken. Labor cannot be monetized without authorization and compensation.
Each data event must be recorded at the moment it is created. Ownership, jurisdiction, and licensing requirements are fixed before use.
data → platform → monetization → person gets nothing
person → PDI → licensed use → transparent benefit → control and revocation
Sovereign Data Licensing ends entitlement. What breaks is not the economy. What breaks is extraction.