Hardware support: China hoards used chipmaking machines to resist US pressure

I am not a professional, so take this idea with a grain of salt, but I still believe that is or something similar should be implemented. And governments should push for such systems. This could be extended to other products that are in high demands and where scams and other questionable or even illegal practices take place.

The company selling a high demand or "used for scam" item should have a API in place to which other stores are linked. When a order is made, it should be sent back to the company, encrypted obviously. Alternatively you could have it go through a customer protection agency instead of a company, a non profit or governmental agency would work too.
I am from Germany and we have certain laws in place, I am most familiar with those, since my last workplace panned for me to become their Data protection officer. Again, I am no expert but I know some important hings. Correct me if I am wrong. Or if it is not plausible for other regions or countries.

After an order is made at a shop the agency gets that order and their system checks it automatically, if it looks kinds OK it may be checked by a human as well. If it is suspicious, for example because someone has several orders going out in seconds (Bot suspicion) or they are ordering several cards to the same place but changing the name, like ordering to your workplace for example to obscure the system and changing the name, because (at least here) the packages simply get delivered to the company they are addressed to, they don't care about the person who they are addressed towards, in other words they don't know who works there therefore they just look at the company name. This is also often used for other scams, drug trafficking's and other things. We have a very serious law regarding packages and letters. They are part of our Basic Law which were put in place after WWII. More checking may be possible in other countries, for Germany there can nothing be done as soon as a package is in circulation.
So the agencies system would have to check each order and compare orders over several shops.

How would the data be compared? Here lies the big problem. We have to share order information, which may be encrypted while being sent, but needs to be decrypted to check, in case a human needs to check, this is even more so the case.
I am thinking of a system similar to what banks use for your credit score. And to make sure no other bank flagged you with fraud or anything else.
This is still then highly debatable since credit scores them self are controversial and no one knows how the data is really used.
So it would have to be limited to order information only. Time, date, address used, creditcard number and others. So similarities can be seen by the system.
We have to make sure no other shop gets your information that way or know how much you order where, so it should only send back an OK or a no, depending on if your check was fine.
Lets say your check is not fine, you made several orders over several stores, but the item you ordered isn't limited at that moment, lets say a R5 2600. For some reason you decided to order 3 over 3 different sites. The system here would also need to check availability. If the Stock is enough to fulfill all orders and there will be still stock left for other customers it should give you the OK for your order. It should not check why you did use 3 different sites or anything. This should not be any of their problems or concern.

Further the System could also check for serial numbers, this one is debatable, and would most likely not work here in Germany. This could work for very specific products like big machines or chemicals, which are already tracked here, and probably in other countries as well. Since it needs to be made sure where a machine comes from, and can be traced back when an accident or something happens. Or when a chemical product is flawed and the end product it was used for is damaged or dangerous.
With graphics cards or other PC parts this is not possible to implement in the EU. And you could easily obscure it by selling your product on the second hand market.

But the use here would be to track where huge amounts or cards reappear. This right now would have no use tho. Since you can't be punished for owning 10 3090s or the shop for selling you 10 at once without having the agency check you. The agency could obviously punish you by reporting this to Nvidia and if Nvidia has contracts or other conditions in place regarding to whom they sell, they could not selling to you anymore, have contractual penalties of other kind like a fine. This would then need to go though courts if they shops want to fight it, etc., but is already common place on the B2B market with machines for example and where certain manufacturers want to make sure how their products are sold.

But if we had more customer protection laws in place this could be used to legally fine stores and individuals. That is why I believe such systems need government support and should be implemented and regulated by law so that not a single party can abuse them. Then you could also report those resellers to said agency and they would take a look, just like our state data protection officers get reports for websites that violate the data protection laws and look into the company and if they find said report to be true, can fine the companies or even forward said violation to the state attorney which then will sue them in the name of the government and people.

The problem here is obviously that this is market regulation. You can go further and dictate or limit the price. But I don't think this should be the case, since this would be too much imo, but others may think differently, and if the government and said customer protection agencies would decide that, then I would have to accept it. Some may disagree with that altogether and oppose market regulation of any kind.

This system should only work to protect customers and give everyone equal chance to acquire a product and to reduce scams from the limitation of a product.
This could be implemented regardless of hardware and work for the entire market. The agency would then receive reports and intervene if they see necessary. For example when toilet paper was scarce this could have helped to give more people a fair chance to buy it.

What do you think of this idea? Should this be implemented by a government, by a non profit or should companies like Nvidia or AMD implement such systems and require stores which want to buy the products to implement such a system / opt in via a API or similar?

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