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Data Protection Missed the Point; Loyalty Gets It Right
Summary SEDI’s duty of loyalty provision shifts the basis for regulating online interaction from the data to the relationship.
Apr 30
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MyTerms and SEDI's Duty of Loyalty
Summary: MyTerms, the new IEEE 7012 standard, gives individuals a protocol for proposing terms to websites as first parties.
Apr 27
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Building a Conversational Interface for Manifold with MCP and Picos
Summary GUIs are dead—at least for most user experiences.
Apr 22
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March 2026
It's Not Just What Agents Can Do...It's When They Can Do It!
Summary: Agents don’t just perform actions; they execute plans where the safety of each step depends on what has already happened.
Mar 30
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A Legal Identity Foundation Isn't Optional
Portable Proof Requires a Legal Identity Foundation
Mar 17
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Fix Identity First
Or Why the SAVE Act Won't Work
Mar 16
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Cross-Domain Delegation in a Society of Agents
Summary: Cross-domain delegation requires more than transferring a credential.
Mar 4
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Delegation as Data: Applying Cedar Policies to OpenClaw Subagents
In earlier posts, I discussed demos I’ve built showing how Cedar can enforce authorization decisions for an OpenClaw agent.
Mar 2
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February 2026
Childproofing the Control Plane: Using Cedar to Build Frontal Lobes for Agentic Systems
Summary: Connecting an agent like OpenClaw to Home Assistant can make home automation more adaptive and intelligent, but it also introduces real risks…
Feb 25
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Beyond Denial: Using Policy Constraints to Guide OpenClaw Planning
Summary: OpenClaw agents plan, adapt, and act over time, so authorization that functions merely as a reactive gate isn’t the best architecture.
Feb 18
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A Policy-Aware Agent Loop with Cedar and OpenClaw
Summary: This article demonstrates how to move authorization inside the agent loop by inserting a Cedar-backed policy decision point into OpenClaw, so…
Feb 11
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SEDI and Client-Side Identity
Summary Client-side certificates were technically sound in the 1990s, but they failed because individuals weren’t willing to pay for identity proofing.
Feb 4
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