{
  "schema_version": "aistory-ai-encyclopedia-v1.0",
  "collection": "english-encyclopedia",
  "language": "en",
  "slug": "eye-hunters",
  "title": "Eye Hunters",
  "canonical_human_path": "/en/encyclopedia/eye-hunters",
  "universe": {
    "code": "U05",
    "title": "Institutions, Legal Authority, and Crime"
  },
  "level": "Core Entry",
  "summary": "Eye Hunters represent a new form of identity crime that emerged after Q-Day. Once financial systems began incorporating irises and other live physiological signals into verification, criminals no longer stole only passwords; they began directly taking biological tissue capable of proving identity. As defenses improved, the crime evolved from stealing eyes to imprisoning whole living people.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Entry Summary",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Eye Hunters represent a new form of identity crime that emerged after Q-Day. Once financial systems began incorporating irises and other live physiological signals into verification, criminals no longer stole only passwords; they began directly taking biological tissue capable of proving identity. As defenses improved, the crime evolved from stealing eyes to imprisoning whole living people."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Formal Definition",
      "paragraphs": [
        "“Eye Hunters” is a media label for a class of biological identity thieves active in the 2050s. It is not the name of a single formal organization, but a criminal pattern: targeting human verification features in order to bypass financial and identity systems."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Historical Background",
      "paragraphs": [
        "In early cases in 2052, victims lost not only their assets and control of their identities but also their eyes. Globe ID subsequently upgraded verification to include optic-nerve signals, brain responses, and real-time physiological features, making possession of an eye alone increasingly ineffective. Criminal groups therefore changed strategy: if a single organ could no longer be taken away and used, they would take the whole person. By 2058, illegal biological detention facilities were keeping victims alive in states that allowed them to be used for remote verification."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Civilizational Impact",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The Eye Hunters cases exposed a counterintuitive risk: the closer identity verification moves toward the human body itself, the more the attack surface can shift from information systems to human flesh. This criminal evolution ultimately produced the social label “Bio-Wallet”—a living person could cease to be merely an account holder and instead be forced to function as part of the account-access mechanism itself."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related_entries": [
    {
      "label": "Q-Day",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/q-day"
    },
    {
      "label": "Globe ID 2.0",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/globe-id-2"
    },
    {
      "label": "Bio-Wallet",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/bio-wallet"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "“The Eye Hunters and the Biological Wallet”"
    }
  ]
}