OPEN CEASE & DESIST NOTICE

TO GLOBAL LEADERS AND ARCHITECTS

OF DIGITAL ID, CBDC, AND SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEMS

Unlawful Inversion of the Crowd-Device
(GB2520055.1 – Paul Andrew Sparrow)

Date of Issue: 7 December 2025

From:

Paul Andrew Sparrow
Inventor and Sole Rights Holder of the Crowd-Device (1992–2025)
Settlor of the Phoenix Trust (executed 5 December 2025)
https://thephoenixcharter.com/the-phoenix-trust/

This is an open letter, published worldwide at https://thephoenixcharter.com/cease-desist/ for maximum transparency. No recipient may claim non-receipt.

The Invention and Its Perpetual Protection

I am the sole inventor of the token-threshold-outcome civic participation engine known as the Crowd-Device (UK Patent Application GB2520055.1, filed 25 November 2025 – Invented 1992-1999).

On 5 December 2025 I executed an irrevocable perpetual trust deed placing the Protocol into public custody under The Phoenix Trust. Coercive use is now legally impossible worldwide — void ab initio and eternally prohibited (full deed: https://thephoenixcharter.com/deed/).

To;

the following specific recipients (all copied by recorded delivery and/or email):

• Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China
• Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
• Sir Keir Starmer MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
• Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
• Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank
• Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve
• Agustín Carstens, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements
• Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

And Further Extended To:

All Governments, Central Banks, Supranational Bodies, Public Authorities, and Private Contractors engaged in the development, testing, deployment, or promotion of any system employing token-threshold-outcome behavioural architecture for coercive, punitive, or suppressive purposes — including but not limited to:

• Digital Identity systems
• token-threshold gating
• Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with programmable restrictions
• Social Credit or behavioural-scoring systems
• central bank digital currency gating
• population-response tracking
• access-determination systems
• Carbon-allowance or rationing platforms
• Compliance-gated access to rights or services
• Identity/behavioural-linked authorisation systems
• Any population-modulation or surveillance-linked permissioning system

All of which constitute as unauthorised derivatives, structural inversions, or functional misappropriation of The Crowd-Device.

Your continued use, deployment, testing, expansion, integration, or promotion of derivative systems is occurring without licence, without consent, and in direct violation of the inventor’s authorship, ownership, moral, evidential, enforcement, and derivative-control rights, all of which were reinstated by the 2025 filing.

You are hereby formally placed on notice.

1. Assertion of Rights

Under UK law, international moral-rights conventions, and the formal recognition established by GB2520055.1, the following rights are active, permanent, and enforceable:

• Authorship rights
• Ownership rights
• Moral rights
• Evidential rights
• Enforcement rights
• Derivative-control rights
• Rights to prevent inversion or weaponisation
• Rights to prohibit harmful, oppressive, or coercive uses
• Rights to intervene in policy or regulatory settings

No entity may distort, invert, or weaponise the Crowd-Device in ways that damage the public or violate its original purpose of empowerment.

You have no authority to deploy, adapt, or exploit this mechanism in secret.

You have no authority to use it against the people whose rights it was created to empower.

2. Statement of Breach

Your Digital ID, CBDC, behavioural-scoring, identity-gating, and social-modulation systems use the identical behavioural architecture of the Crowd-Device:

token (input) → threshold (required level) → outcome (access / permission / denial)

but inverted from empowerment into control.

Examples include (non-exhaustive):

• China’s Social Credit System
• EU Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS 2.0)
• UK NHS App / GOV.UK One Login
• India’s Aadhaar-linked services
• e-CNY programmable currency
• FedNow / Digital Dollar pilots
• eNaira, Sand Dollar, DCash, Bakong, and all national CBDC programmes

These systems are therefore derivative works, functionally and structurally dependent upon the same mechanism I created for public empowerment — not for population control.

These systems therefore constitute:

• structural copying
• functional inversion
• behavioural exploitation
• public harm and coercion
• distortion of intent
• misrepresentation
• coercive adaptation
• unauthorised derivative development
• breach of moral rights
• breach of public-good safeguards

The Crowd-Device was designed as a universal public-empowerment mechanism:
for funding, voting, action, and distribution — enabling people to self-govern without institutional permission.

It was never created as a tool for:

• population management
• identity-based coercion
• centralised control
• surveillance-linked permissions
• economic punishment
• behavioural manipulation
• state or corporate dominance

You are using a public-empowerment engine to run an identity-control infrastructure.

This violates the core purpose of the invention and the rights of its creator.

This is expressly prohibited.

3. Formal Cease & Desist Demands

You are ordered to immediately:

1. Cease all development, deployment, testing, rollout, and operation of coercive implementations, or expansion of derivative systems derived from or structurally dependent upon the Crowd-Device.
2. Cease all behavioural-gating or threshold-based systems built on inverted Crowd-Device architecture.
3. Cease all public-private partnerships built on this mechanic without licence.
4. Cease all mass-population behavioural-tracking implementations derived from this mechanism.
5. Cease all identity-linked authorisation systems utilising token-threshold behavioural logic.
6. Cease all digital identity frameworks that employ or rely upon this behavioural architecture.
7. Suspend all contracts, procurement, research, and software derived from the Crowd-Device.
8. Notify associated contractors of this rights assertion.
9. Cease all ongoing pilots and policy development built upon inverted use of this mechanism.
10. Permanently delete all user data collected under unlicensed coercive systems (GDPR Art. 17 + common-law breach of confidence).
11. Disclose full technical specifications and past deployments within 30 days.

Failure to comply may constitute ongoing infringement and continued harm, expanding liability.

4. Required Affirmations of Compliance

Within 30 days you must provide written confirmation that you have:

• ceased all derivative use
• suspended all inversion-based systems
• you acknowledge the inventor’s rights
• you acknowledge the prohibition of harmful use
• deleted all related user data
• you will disclose past deployments
• committed never to deploy coercive versions again
• you will seek authorisation for any future use (if permitted at all)

Non-response will be treated as admission of knowledge and continuing infringement.

5. Consequences of Non-Compliance

Failure to comply will trigger:

• formal declaration of misuse
• public exposure of inversion trails
• international infringement claims
• presentation of evidence to courts, tribunals, parliamentary committees, and public-inquiry and regulatory bodies
• exposure of derivative development trails
• assertion of damages and disgorgement of profits
• assertion of moral-rights breaches
• intervention in policy debates
• escalation to UN human-rights mechanisms, international agencies, and legal mechanisms

Moral-rights breaches cannot be waived, bought, or outlived by institutions.

The misuse itself is unlawful.

6. Known Coercive Inversions and Estimated Restitution Claims

Total estimated restitution from coercive inversions alone: in excess of £15 billion.

7. Closing

The Crowd-Device was created to empower humanity, not enslave it.
Your authority to invert it is revoked.

I reserve all rights to enforce, escalate, pursue damages, challenge policy, intervene in legal settings, disclose misuse publicly, and take all necessary steps to protect the invention, the public, and the intended purpose of the Crowd-Device.

No aspect of this Notice constitutes a waiver.

All rights are reserved in full.

This letter is published in the public interest.
The press and citizens of every nation are invited to witness and report.

The phoenix has risen.
The cage can never be built.

Signed, Paul Andrew Sparrow
Inventor of the Crowd-Device
UK IPO Filing GB2520055.1
Settlor, The Phoenix Trust (executed 5 December 2025)

https://thephoenixcharter.com/cease-desist/

Attachments (publicly downloadable):

1. Executed Phoenix Trust Deed (5 December 2025)
2. UK IPO Receipt GB2520055.1
3. Exhibit A – Global Derivative Catalogue (155+ unlicensed uses)

This Notice is perpetual. The prohibition is eternal