The Digital Identity Sovereignty Crisis: Who Owns the Keys to Personhood?

Digital identity is the infrastructure of citizenship itself. When the verification pipeline that defines legal personhood runs through foreign-controlled systems, nations discover that sovereignty is not exercised — it is rented. This article applies the TEE Method framework and the Seven-Layer Sovereignty Stack Audit to the quiet crisis of outsourced identity infrastructure, revealing the dependency chains that most procurement frameworks are not designed to detect.