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THE RECORD
SECTION 06
ISSUE 001
PROJECTIONhypothesis1-3yconfidence / medium
Provenance Can Be Unlinkable
Hypothesis: capture credentials can remain verifiable without becoming globally linkable. Test rotating certificates and selective disclosure against realistic adversaries, measuring privacy, revocation, abuse reporting, and newsroom usability. If unrelated assets can still be joined to one identity, the provenance layer has quietly become a tracking system.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
C2PA specifies cryptographic manifests and identity assertions; independent analysis argues provenance systems have security and verification limitations worth stress-testing.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01C2PA Technical Specification 2.4
current technical standard / published 2026-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-10
- S02Verifying Provenance of Digital Media: Why C2PA Falls Short
research preprint / published 2026-04-27 / retrieved 2026-07-09