1. Facts are not property merely because they concern a person.Authority over facts is allocated, not owned. Proposition 3
2. Possession does not create authority.Holding a record is a fact about custody, not a grant of power. Proposition 4
3. Technical capability does not create authority.That a system can do something does not mean government may. Proposition 1
4. Commercial availability does not create governmental authority.Buying data from a broker does not enlarge what government may know. Proposition 4
5. Interoperability does not aggregate governmental authority.Connecting systems does not combine the authority of the agencies that run them. Proposition 4
6. Government should receive the authorized answer, not the underlying record.Ask "is this person eligible?" and receive yes or no, not the file. Proposition 5
7. Government should hold the least standing informational power its legitimate function needs.Legal authority sets an outer boundary; necessity sets the working one. Proposition 5
8. Broader purpose labels cannot manufacture broader authority."Public safety" is not a purpose. Proposition 4
9. AI inherits governmental authority. It does not create it.Technical ability to infer is not authority to infer. GAAFA
10. Government cannot outsource its informational limits.Vendors and intermediaries cannot do for government what government could not do itself. Procurement
11. Renewed authority, not standing access, should govern exceptional need.Emergencies get bounded, expiring, recorded access, not a permanent back door. Proposition 2
12. Architecture should make illegitimate power unavailable, not merely prohibited."Can't be evil," not "don't be evil." Proposition 5