Identity and rights

Self-sovereign identity means the profile belongs to you.

Bring your identity. Bring the permissions you choose. Leave the rest private.

Interactive concept. The application is in development.

Public-role records expand while a citizen shares only a minimum attestation
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Your VerusID is not an account issued by Rate My Representatives.

Your Civic Profile is not an RMR-owned database record. You decide which claims, settings or profile components an application may use.

IDENTITY-06Architecture

Your profile. Your authorization.

Concept · planned
Participant
  • 1Controls identity and keys
VerusID / VDXF data
  • 1Selected profile components
Participant authorization
  • 1Specific permissions
RMR interface
  • 1Uses only authorized information
Bring your identity. Bring the permissions you choose. Leave the rest private.
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Your profile goes with you

Preferred jurisdictions, interests, priorities, personal civic rules, notification preferences, values, issue-specific instructions, permissions and application settings may belong in your participant-controlled profile. You choose what to bring into RMR.

Public-role records expand while a citizen shares only a minimum attestation
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Permission comes before access

Portability is initiated by the participant. RMR does not automatically receive a Civic Ledger profile. Using the same identity across applications does not grant unrestricted cross-application access.

TECH-02Technology

Participant-authorized access

Concept · planned
Participant-controlled identity
  • VerusID / VDXF data
  • Keys remain with participant
  • Choose claims, settings and rules
RMR request
  • Purpose-specific proof
  • Explicit permission
  • Mission-specific access / decryption
No transfer of the identity-control private key.No automatic Civic Ledger profile import.
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Authenticated, unverified, and anonymous

Authenticated participation uses a qualifying self-sovereign credential and applicable human/jurisdiction proof. Unverified participation lacks that qualifying attestation. Anonymous input is not associated with an authenticated civic identity. All three remain distinguishable.

Illustrative participationChoose how to contribute
Your sample contribution

“Please show the source and the representative response beside this record.”

Human confirmed

Authentication identifies participation status. It does not make an opinion true.

Illustrative profile

Sample Representative

City Councillor · Ward 8

Profile status
Sample only
Source coverage
Partial · text label
Methodology
In development

This changes presentation only. Information and reading order remain intact.

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Rate public power. Do not rank the population.

Never generate a generalized citizen trust, loyalty, political conformity, reputation, eligibility or civic influence score. A purpose-specific status is not a citizen reputation.

IDENTITY-04Identity & rights

No Social Credit Covenant

Concept · planned
Six commitments
  • No political conformity score
  • No access-control score
  • No cross-context reputation profile
  • No hidden AI judgment
  • No sale of citizen scoring profiles
  • No punishment for lawful participation
Permitted distinction
  • Citizen credential has no numerical score
  • Public-office analysis remains role-limited and inspectable
Accountability follows public power—not private life.
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Verify the human without taking ownership of the human’s identity.

The Checks and Balances Human Verification Protocol creates or supports a community-attested human-verification credential associated with a participant-controlled VerusID. RMR may request only the proof needed for the action.

IDENTITY-05Identity & rights

Purpose-specific states

Concept · planned
Credential state
  • Current
  • Expired
  • Revoked
  • Pending renewal
Submission state
  • Submitted
  • Under review
  • Published
  • Disputed
  • Corrected
  • Withdrawn
Evidence state
  • Source attached
  • Incomplete context
  • Human review
  • Duplicate evidence
Generalized citizen score
  • Prohibited
Complete policy language

The covenant is more than a slogan.

Expand each section to inspect the full identity, participation, and No Social Credit commitments.

Citizen identity will not become a citizen score

No social credit scores shall be created with this technology by Civic Ledger AI Ltd. or Checks and Balances Committee Ltd., or in any implementation that either company develops, operates, governs, or licenses.

A citizen’s lawful speech, political beliefs, associations, ratings, petitions, voting choices, criticism of public officials, evidence submissions, or use of civic tools shall not be converted into a generalized reputation, conformity, loyalty, eligibility, or trustworthiness score.

Narrow, purpose-specific states—such as whether a credential is current, expired, revoked, or associated with a duplicate submission—must remain transparent, contestable, non-portable, and incapable of being combined into a generalized citizen score.

Never generate a generalized citizen civic influence score. A purpose-specific status is not a citizen reputation.

No political conformity score

Citizens will not be rewarded or penalized for supporting, opposing, criticizing, or rating a representative.

No access-control score

Citizen identity or civic activity will not be used to determine access to rights, public services, employment, housing, credit, insurance, mobility, benefits, or unrelated platforms.

No cross-context reputation profile

Purpose-specific identity or moderation states will not be combined into a portable score following a citizen across services.

No hidden AI judgment

AI will not infer a citizen’s loyalty, social value, political reliability, or generalized trustworthiness.

No sale of citizen scoring profiles

Neither company will create, sell, license, or trade citizen social-credit profiles.

No punishment for lawful participation

Lawful civic participation, dissent, criticism, abstention, or refusal to rate a representative will not reduce a citizen’s identity status.

Why a representative score is different

A representative voluntarily exercises public power and creates a public record. A Representative Accountability Score evaluates the public role, public duties, source-backed conduct, and community response connected to that role.

The score may not govern the representative’s access to ordinary civil rights or unrelated services. It must be source-backed, published, versioned, correctable, role-limited, and separated from citizen identity.

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