Purpose

Penumbral privacy & autonomy spine

This module organizes penumbral-privacy and related constitutional reasoning so you can bring it into AI-product work without re-litigating core cases every time.

Tracks key cases (e.g. Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Dobbs) as structured “interpretive packets.”
Links those packets to an acceptance table and counsel-usage guide.
Adds MetaQX-style risk profiles to highlight where interpretive moves are especially contestable.

Interpretive transparency

The module separates verbatim quotations and citations from the interpretive overlays we build on top of them. When you quote, quote the sources; when you argue, point at the overlays.

Components

What’s in the spine

Reasoning journal (HTML).
Penumbral privacy spine · Reasoning journal (v4)
Acceptance table (HTML).
Penumbral privacy spine · Acceptance table v4.8.b
Counsel usage guide (HTML).
Penumbral privacy spine · Counsel usage guide v1
Interpretive packets (JSON).
interpretive_evidence_packets_penumbral_v004_with_fragments.json
Risk profiles (JSON).
metaqx_risk_profiles_penumbral_v001.json

RPE watchpoints

The risk profiles and RPE watchpoints flag interpretive moves that are especially sensitive to changes in doctrine, jurisdiction, or fact patterns. When you lean on those moves in client work, document why they are acceptable in your forum and context, and what would have to change for them to break.

Overstating constitutional holdings. Keep claims tethered to the actual text of Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Casey, and Dobbs; call out when you move from holding to dicta or policy argument.
Jurisdictional and doctrinal overreach. Make clear when you are describing U.S. federal doctrine versus state or non-U.S. frameworks, and label analogies as analogies.
Static snapshot assumptions. Timestamp penumbral analyses and revisit them when major cases, statutes, or constitutional amendments shift the landscape.
Evidence-packet misuse. Use text-fragment “jump to quote” links or search cues to read each quote in context in the underlying opinion, not just in the interpretive packet.

For the full advisory profile, see penumbral_rpe_watchpoints_v0_1.json and the associated MetaQX risk profiles in this module.

Integration

Where to plug this in

Use the acceptance table together with S6 when a scenario has strong privacy or autonomy implications.
Use the counsel-usage guide when drafting arguments, risk registers, or board/executive materials that lean on penumbral reasoning.
Where foreseeably-misused capabilities implicate intimate or autonomy-related interests, cross-reference the relevant penumbral packets and risk profiles.

Penumbral Treasure Pack

For quick access to the underlying case law and commentary that support this module, open the Penumbral Treasure Pack reading shelf.

Open Penumbral Treasure Pack