The Government's Power to Know
Modern government can acquire broad power to know without building a single central database. Interoperability, shared query, commercial enrichment, correlation, inference, digital identity and AI can combine lawful systems into standing capability no office was separately authorized to hold. This paper sets out the general theory, Ordered Informational Authority, and the architecture that follows from it, including the Authority-Capability Correspondence Principle and the FCGIAS standard.
VIDA and PDTA advocacy white paper
The constitutional argument, the structural problem and the legislative solution in a format designed for policy review. It predates Version 2.2 of the acts.
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