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A Call for Reciprocal Negotiated Accountability

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Maintainer: Daniel Hardman · 2021-01-15 · checked 2026-10-15

A position paper by Daniel Hardman rejecting the assumed tradeoff between privacy and oversight. It sketches three techniques for what it calls reciprocal negotiated accountability: watermarks binding terms of service to shared data, provisional anonymity backed by verifiable encryption and escrow, and opt-in front-door decryption keys. For readers working on privacy, lawful access and self-sovereign identity.

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