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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.

  1. S01
    C2PA Technical Specification 2.4

    current technical standard / published 2026-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-10

  2. S02
    Verifying Provenance of Digital Media: Why C2PA Falls Short

    research preprint / published 2026-04-27 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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