kaal:claim:7314479-005

State is user-held only if the operator cannot read the user's working state without the user's participation; an operator that holds decryption capability holds the data regardless of marketing claims about ownership.

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The test is whether the operator can read the user's working state without the user's participation. A system in which the operator holds decryption capability holds the data, whatever the marketing says about ownership.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes (2026), II. The Sovereign Local Agent Runtime as a Class of System, p. 5
https://ssrn.com/abstract=7314479 · source PDF

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Wulf A. Kaal, Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7314479

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conditionsupport: arguedai-and-agentsinstitutional-designdecentralization

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