# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 058

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:058`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Continuity reduces whitewashing while creating persistent linkage risk, so the protocol manages rather than resolves the tension between accountability and privacy.

**Status.** Public research record. Not yet eligible for the published-source scholarly claim layer.

**Claim type.** condition

**Holds when.**

- Persona Protocol v0.3 as proposed; not an adopted standard

**Protocol.** TrustCarry Protocol v0.3, historically titled and aliased as Persona Protocol v0.3.

**Supporting passage from Persona Protocol v0.3.**

> The residual risk is real and is not resolved. The same continuity guarantee that prevents whitewashing creates a persistent linkage surface, and distributed operation makes lawful data handling harder to demonstrate rather than easier: distribution "complicates the tracking of data flows and the enforcement of privacy controls, making it difficult to demonstrate compliance during audits" (Kaal 2024b, claim 4941807-027). The protocol manages this tension. It does not dissolve it.

**Source locator.** Line 226 of the sealed v0.3 source.

**Source SHA-256.** `38efc43b80ab62426ca1f946114677afeda730bca30dda71dfd299223a6def7c`

**Provenance.** Direct author affirmation of exact batch `persona-protocol-v0.3-new-claims-2026-08-01`. The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.

**License.** CC BY 4.0; attribute Wulf A. Kaal and cite the canonical record URL.

**Limit.** This record is public and citable as an author-affirmed research proposition. It is not a claim extracted from a canonical published paper, is not an adopted standard, and does not alter the 5,033 scholarly claim layer.