Alexandra Chambers | 22nd June 2025
The Imminent Rise of the Digital Clone.
In 2020, a patent was quietly approved under the name US10607133B2 – titled “Digital Human Generation Method and System. Beneath the technical language lies one of the most concerning technological blueprints of our time: the systematic construction of a digital twin – a simulated version of you, built from your own data, without your conscious input, consent, or control.
🔧 What Does the Patent Do?
At its core, US10607133B2 outlines a modular system to create a comprehensive, multi-dimensional digital representation of a person – a “digital human.” This replica is constructed from a range of behavioural, biometric, and social data sources, including:
Mobile phone usage.
Social media platforms (e.g. Facebook tiltok WeChat, Weibo, QQ).
E-commerce platforms (e.g., Taobao, Jingdong).
Sensor data (e.g., apple wearables, cameras, network metadata).
Browsing habits, location history, and purchasing behaviour (Amazon etc).
The system defines multiple “profile models” that each represent a slice of your digital life:
Health and physiological data.
Hobbies and interests.
Consumption behavior.
Social networks.
Movement and behaviour patterns.
Together, these create a digital version of you – updated dynamically, accessible via an API, and processed using AI methods like deep learning, clustering, and predictive modelling.
⚙️ How It Works (Simplified)
The Data Access Bill 2025 has enabled this:
1. Profile Definition: A template is created for the kind of “digital person” the system wants to model – this could vary depending on the industry or client.
2. Data Collection: Information is gathered from diverse, often unrelated sources, all attributed to the same user identity.
3. Annotation & Structuring: Raw data is timestamped, location-tagged, keyworded, and structured to fit each dimension of the person model.
4. Profile Assembly: Algorithms generate and refine the user’s digital self, integrating all dimensions into a living, evolving model.
5. Interface & Access: Clients can call upon the digital twin through APIs to gain real-time insights or predictions.
🛡️ Who Might Use It?
Corporations: For hyper-personalized advertising and behavioural nudging or Digital ID rollout
Governments: For citizen monitoring, predictive policing, and “pre-crime” simulation.
Defense contractors: For psychological warfare simulations and population modelling.
Health providers: To create predictive health maps or behavioural risk profiles.
Tech platforms: For digital assistants, avatars, and voice models.
⚠️ What Are the Dangers?
1. Loss of Privacy
This patent enables total behavioural capture. Once data is scraped into this system, it is no longer just metadata – it’s identity data. The more you live digitally, the more complete the replica becomes.
2. Algorithmic Control
Your digital twin can be used to predict and shape your behaviour – not just observe it. This opens doors to:
Persuasive manipulation.
Political targeting.
Psychological profiling.
3. Consent Bypass
There is no mention in the patent of explicit consent mechanisms. As long as the data can be sourced from “legal” platforms or third-party agreements, your digital twin can be built without your knowledge.
4. Synthetic Impersonation
Once the model is complete, it can simulate your speech, decisions, and emotional states. This paves the way for:
Voice cloning.
Deepfake avatars.
Synthetic decision-making “in your name”.
5. Weaponization of the Self
Imagine a future where your synthetic self testifies against you in court, auto-enrolls you in services, or triggers alerts for law enforcement — because your model “predicts” suspicious intent.
🧠Why It Matters More Than You Think
This isn’t just about privacy – it’s about sovereignty.
You are not just losing data – you are losing authorship over your digital self.
When a synthetic model becomes the more “useful” version of you – for governments, corporations, or AI systems – the real you is side-lined. Or worse: overwritten.
🛡️ What Can We Do?
1. Expose These Patents – Bring them into public awareness. – sunlight is the only disinfectant.
2. Reject Consent Laundering – Push back against click-through agreements that legalize surveillance.
3. Build Parallel Systems – Platforms that honor data minimalism and human sovereignty.
4. Demand Legislation – That bans synthetic human modeling without explicit, revocable, informed consent.
đź“Ś Final Word
Patent US10607133B2 is a blueprint for digital colonization. It reflects a future in which your self – your thoughts, habits, and entire identity – is mined, modelled, shared and sold like oil.
Once a system knows you better than you know yourself, who’s really in control?
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10607133B2/zh
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