# Privacy law

`kaal:entity:privacy-law`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `privacy-law`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2010 to 2024.

**2010**

- [1664809-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/1664809-034) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- If US law requires disclosure of information that another country's law prohibits from being disclosed, whether for privacy or other reasons, there could be a true conflict of law and a credible case that the United States is in breach of international law.
  > disclosure of information that another country's law would prohibit to be disclosed, whether for privacy reasons or other reasons, there could be a true conflict of law and a credible case that the United States is in breach of international law.
  Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Extraterritorial Application of US Securities Law – Will the US Become the Default Jurisdiction for (2010). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1664809

**2017**

- [2939127-028](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-028) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Although blockchain technology itself offers unprecedented data and privacy protection, storing blockchain data across a global network of nodes often will not comply with the consumer protection rules, directives, and guidelines of particular jurisdictions.
  > While blockchain technology itself offers unprecedented genuine data and privacy protection, the storage of blockchain data across a global network of nodes often will not comply with specific consumer protection rules, directives, and guidelines around the world.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

**2024**

- [4941807-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4941807-019) [mechanism/argued] -- Smart contracts can automate compliance with regulatory requirements and ethical guidelines: for example, a smart contract can enforce privacy law directly by controlling an AI system's access to personal data according to predefined rules.
  > They can be used to automate compliance with regulatory requirements and ethical guidelines. For instance, smart contracts can automatically enforce privacy laws by controlling AI's access to personal data based on predefined rules.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI Governance Via Web3 Reputation System (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4941807

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/privacy-law.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.