Anthropic Legal Bearings Pack AI governance & counsel workflows
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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.

How to read this spine

This module is meant to be read in layers. It separates the legal strategy from the operational spec, and then exposes the supporting tables and reasoning so counsel can verify how we got there.

  1. Start with the legal strategy brief (the “why”). Read the Penumbral privacy spine — legal strategy brief. This page frames the penumbral privacy gap, the “privacy vacuum,” and the civil-rights proxy argument in counsel-facing language.
  2. Then move to the operational spec (the “how”). Use the Penumbral privacy spine — operational spec when you are ready to turn the strategy into concrete requirements on encryption, logging, retention, and system design. The split-view table is written as a checklist for product, infra, and security teams.
  3. Check the acceptance table. The acceptance table turns the spine into a set of scenarios, risk statuses, and follow-ups that can anchor conversation with Anthropic and integrators.
  4. Explore the treasure pack and reasoning journal. The treasure pack and reasoning journal expose the sources, argument scaffolding, and intermediate notes we used to arrive at the spine.
  5. Use the counsel usage note when you draft. The counsel usage note gives practical guidance on how to cite and reuse this module in opinions, board decks, or product reviews.

Taken together, these pages are a demo spine: a worked example of how Anthropic might structure and evidence a penumbral privacy argument, not a substitute for formal legal advice. Licensed counsel should adapt this pattern to the facts and jurisdictions that actually apply to their matter.

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.