From Principles to Law

This session builds the complete constitutional case for the Fiduciary Commons framework. Facts are an unownable commons requiring fiduciary stewardship. Government was always a constitutional fiduciary toward citizens whose data it holds. The FIPPs gap, fifty years old, can be closed not by new obligations but by operationalizing ones that have existed since the framers wrote the Fourth Amendment. Utah’s SB 260 and SB 275, both passed unanimously, are the first statutory codification of government data fiduciary duties in American state law. The gaps that remain define the next legislative chapter, and the three-stage roadmap for other states is clear.