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Internet Ethics, American Law, And Jewish Law: A Comparative Overview, Gertrude N. Levine, Samuel J. Levine Jun 2026

Internet Ethics, American Law, And Jewish Law: A Comparative Overview, Gertrude N. Levine, Samuel J. Levine

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

Societies are governed by codes of ethics. In developed societies, parts of these codes form a set of laws, enforceable by legal authorities, with or without assistance from the populace. At times, laws are crafted for the benefit of the powerful members of the society, ensuring preservation of their positions and property, while other constituents may ignore, actively disobey, or challenge laws they believe do not support their ethics. Developing and maintaining appropriate social norms is thus particularly critical for sustaining rapidly changing heterogeneous populaces.

The Internet, devised for the purpose of interconnecting diverse computer networks of research and educational …

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Fintech And Disruptive Business Models In Financial Products, Intermediation And Markets-Policy Implications For Financial Regulators, Iris H-Y Chiu Jun 2026

Fintech And Disruptive Business Models In Financial Products, Intermediation And Markets-Policy Implications For Financial Regulators, Iris H-Y Chiu

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

A recent Financial Times survey indicates that the financial services sector (in mainstream terms) is concerned about the disruptive potential of several digital-based technologies as applied to financial services, such as blockchain, big data and robo-advisers. Not to mention that we have already of late witnessed the emergence of high frequency algorithmic trading, novel consumer payment devices, online crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending. Financial technology, which seems to be ushering in an order for upheaval, is defined by Price Waterhouse Coopers as "a dynamic segment at the intersection of the financial services and technology sectors where technology-focused start-ups and new market …

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You Can't Hack This: The Regulatory Future Of Cybersecurity In Automobiles, Liz Allison Jun 2026

You Can't Hack This: The Regulatory Future Of Cybersecurity In Automobiles, Liz Allison

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

This Note argues that any new legislation imposing new safety regulations on car manufacturers is unnecessary, and will ultimately create more problems than it solves. First, there are numerous established laws that either already require what some of these propose, or address the issues involved in car hacking. Secondly, as vehicular technology becomes more advanced, so too will the methods available to fix the vulnerabilities within their systems. Finally, the government's inefficiencies and inability to stave off its own cyberattacks makes any type of federal regulations requiring minimum safety protocols a cumbersome option. For these reasons, this Note argues private …

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The Most Amazing Masks For Ali Bay!, Chouaib Halifi Jun 2026

The Most Amazing Masks For Ali Bay!, Chouaib Halifi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article is a detailed introduction to a play which Domenico Badia Leblich wrote about Morocco in 1803 under the pseudonym of Ali Bey Al-Abbasi. It will deal with the mask and the ideological knowledge it implies to achieve ready-made results. All this is achieved through language and theatricalization, which require a fictional structure concealing the writer’s identity and the identity of the discourse inner circle where the political, the historical and the cultural are interwoven. The article will examine this issue through the biography of Domenko Badia the spy, and his biography in which he chose to disguise himself …

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The Heteronomy Of Fernando Pessoa, Filomena Iooss Jun 2026

The Heteronomy Of Fernando Pessoa, Filomena Iooss

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

In this article, we do not claim to be inventing the subject matter of Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms, but rather we authentically collect a collection of information and ideas by feminist critics at various times. Given the huge bibliography accumulated about Pessoa and his creative work, this contribution will necessarily be very reductive. Therefore, our aim is to present a comprehensive and authentic view of such a topic. We will allow ourselves to wonder about Pessoa’s personality, his multiple masks and psychological and philosophical issues he raises, such as the self, the other, consciousness and isolation. His writings present accurate analysis …

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The Traveller And His Masks: The Example Of Pierre-Jean Grosley's Swedes, Antoine Eche Jun 2026

The Traveller And His Masks: The Example Of Pierre-Jean Grosley's Swedes, Antoine Eche

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

In this article, Antoine Eche will elucidate the motives that lead the writer- traveler to concealing his identity during the journey to a foreign country, and also after the publication of his travel narrative. He will therefore analyze the case of Pierre-Jean Grosley's account: Observation sur l'Italie et les italiens, by two Swedish gentlemen, translated from Swedish into French and published in 1764, by exploring in particular the relationship between the reader and the narrative text, which is established by the use of a pseudonym or an anonymous name. Thus, he will examine the question of manipulation and connivance, which …

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The Metaphorical Narrative Vision In Al-Tahir Jean Walis Padovani, Zahra Ibrahim Jun 2026

The Metaphorical Narrative Vision In Al-Tahir Jean Walis Padovani, Zahra Ibrahim

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Jean-Wallis PADOVANI did not write under a pseudonym or assume the part of any of his characters, but rather published the story of TAHER under his real name. Unlike his contemporaries, who, driven by hidden motives, had changed their names or otherwise disguised themselves in their writings in order to appropriate the identity of the indigenous people, members of their environment, or symbols of their culture, PADOVANI took a different alternative by choosing a narrative form that he cleverly exploited for equally camouflaged purposes. From his luxurious Parisian neighborhood, he dedicated to Jean THARAUD and his brother Jérôme a short …

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Between Knowledge And Disguise The Atlantic Desert With Spanish Eyes, Adel Jahil Jun 2026

Between Knowledge And Disguise The Atlantic Desert With Spanish Eyes, Adel Jahil

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Travel literature is about the description of a country, where the traveller takes notes about his impressions and observations, according to his vision and psychological formation. However, this description mixes reality and imagination, narration and scientific, historical, geographic, social and psychological facts. Through such description, the traveller provides an image about the other in his text, as it is portrayed in the reviews of the 1886 Spanish expedition, which was designated to act for a scientific task in the Atlantic Sahara under the auspices of General Julio Cervera Baviera. Consequently, through its own viewpoint, the expedition provided positive and negative …

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Three Spanish Spies In The Maghreb Of The Century The Nineteenth, Abdelmouneim Bounou Jun 2026

Three Spanish Spies In The Maghreb Of The Century The Nineteenth, Abdelmouneim Bounou

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

At the end of the 19th century, imperialism mobilized a whole conquest arsenal which resulted in a significant increase of archival documents about Morocco, as few travelers ventured into a land that seemed to be symbolic of the unknown. The case of these three Spanish spies, who came to Morocco to spy on the Moroccan society, destabilize the country and thus create the conditions for a military intervention by Spain in Northern and Southern Morocco, reflects the development of European wars and colonial conquests in North Africa, where spying operations flourished throughout the 19th century. The endeavor was about collecting …

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Secret Explorations In Africa: Explorers, Spies And Travelers In Forbidden Regions, Aicha Al-Maati Jun 2026

Secret Explorations In Africa: Explorers, Spies And Travelers In Forbidden Regions, Aicha Al-Maati

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article summarizes Fernando Ballano Gonzalo’s Secret explorations in Africa in which he compiled his research on disguised travellers from various nationalities, whose passion for adventure and travel was greater than their fears. These travellers penetrated prohibited African regions with the aim of serving their countries’ governments, or with the desire and personal curiosity of exploring the ‘other.’ They came back with valuable information about the places they visited. They had been supernaturally capable of living spontaneously with a mask/ masks which the other was unable to take off or uncover. The travellers even find themselves sometimes unable to abandon …

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The Enemy Always Comes From The South, Abdelouahed Akmir Director Of The Center For Andalusian Studies And Civilizational Dialogue In Rabat Jun 2026

The Enemy Always Comes From The South, Abdelouahed Akmir Director Of The Center For Andalusian Studies And Civilizational Dialogue In Rabat

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article will describe the dynamism of history which lacks cognitive follow-up, based on the idea of conflict between the North and the South, and on the assertions that often partake of this relationship. These contentions are rooted in the dominant culture, and contribute to orienting this relationship and its history. Among such assertions this article focus on is the fact that "the enemy always comes from the South." The scholar will try to deconstruct such an idea through two axes: The first will be concerned with the way in which this assertion has been established in the Spanish political, …

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Masking Colonial Imposture: When Mardochée Writes Back Against Charles De Foucauld’S Narrative, Ahmed Aziz Houdzi Jun 2026

Masking Colonial Imposture: When Mardochée Writes Back Against Charles De Foucauld’S Narrative, Ahmed Aziz Houdzi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Charles de Foucault is probably one of the most famous explorers who travelled through pre-colonial Morocco. His achievement is still considered as a milestone in the colonial historiography. However, surprisingly enough, the success and fame of this explorer considerably hide the essential role and the fundamental contribution of his travelling companion Mardochée Aby Serour. This article will examine, through Mustapha Kébir Ammi's novel “Mardochée”, the guide's position regarding the mission in which he undertook together with Charles de Foucault, alias Youssef Aleman. In “Mardochée” (2011), Kébir-Mustapha Ammi gives voice to this character which remained silent and deprived of the right …

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Translucent Masks, Eloquentfaces: Adrián Patroni An (Anti) Orientalist In Morocco, Ahmed Balghzal Jun 2026

Translucent Masks, Eloquentfaces: Adrián Patroni An (Anti) Orientalist In Morocco, Ahmed Balghzal

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This paper will approach the representations of Morocco in the latin-American discourse, namely through De la Argentina a Marruecos by Adrián Patroni. It will determine the discursive bipolarity in this work which stands in between a critical view based on some basic assumptions of the Orientalist discourse and a deeply subjective assessment of the Moroccan culture that reproduces the same discursive phenomena that the author tries to deconstruct. Through a selective analytical approach, the study will show the impact of using the mask in a set of narrative strategies in order to deconstruct the structure of classical Orientalist writing, such …

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Marruecos Visto Por El Colonizador A Través Del Viaje De Julio Cervera Baviera, Nadia Baline Jun 2026

Marruecos Visto Por El Colonizador A Través Del Viaje De Julio Cervera Baviera, Nadia Baline

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

: Julio Cervera Baviera is a scientist, a politician and an adventurer. He is passionate about Africa. He was sent to Morocco in 1884 on a four-month expedition mission with the aim of a subsequent military occupation. This Spanish traveler described most of the details of the expedition in Expedición geográfico- militar al interior y costas de Marruecos, he himself wrote and published in Barcelona in 1885. This book provides a geographical description of the regions he visited, as well as the traditions of their people. Julio Cervera Baviera’s expedition left from Ceuta and arrived in Fez, Morocco, armed with …

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Who Are Pessoa’ English Heteronyms? A Review Of Maria Colom Jiménez’ Thesis Fernando Pessoa’S English Literary Characters, Mohamed Jalid Jun 2026

Who Are Pessoa’ English Heteronyms? A Review Of Maria Colom Jiménez’ Thesis Fernando Pessoa’S English Literary Characters, Mohamed Jalid

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This paper aims at introducing Maria Colom Jiménez[1]’ thesis Fernando Pessoa’s English Literary Characters: A critical Study and Assessment of Personalities and Texts, which was presented in 2016 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the doctorate degree. Pessoa’s heteronyms (literary characters/ personalities) is presented herein not as pseudonyms, but rather as fictional characters that undertake, alongside or on behalf of him, the task of planning, thinking, creating and writing. Such an imaginary world is, according to Jiménez, the first literary endeavor that allowed him to develop what he called ‘drama emgente’ (drama in people). …

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Editorial (Arabic) Disguise Representations(S), Chouaib Halifi Jun 2026

Editorial (Arabic) Disguise Representations(S), Chouaib Halifi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

No abstract provided.

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Editorial (English) Disguise Representations(S), Chouaib Halifi Jun 2026

Editorial (English) Disguise Representations(S), Chouaib Halifi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

No abstract provided.

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Unified Dynamic User State Vector With Cross-State Conflict Resolution For Recommendation Ranking, Anonymous Jun 2026

Unified Dynamic User State Vector With Cross-State Conflict Resolution For Recommendation Ranking, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are disclosed for recommendation ranking using a unified, explicitly decomposed user psychological state vector. A coordination layer loads per-user state values including mood, trust, cognitive mode, topic-indexed satiation, and topic-indexed curiosity, constructs explicit cross-state interaction features (including trust×curiosity, mood×satiation, mode×satiation, and trust×mood), and provides these to a ranking model to compute base scores for candidate items. A conflict resolution engine detects contradictory ranking actions implied by different state dimensions and applies a dominance hierarchy with cascading hard and soft constraints, including mood-based content suppression and trust-gated exploration as hard constraints and satiation discounting as a soft constraint. …

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Coordination-Resistant Differential Privacy Layer For Recommendation Platform Signals, Anonymous Jun 2026

Coordination-Resistant Differential Privacy Layer For Recommendation Platform Signals, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A recommendation platform serves signals such as rankings, trending indicators, popularity metrics, price distributions, and market-level statistics to autonomous agents. A differential privacy layer generates agent-specific responses by applying calibrated (e, d)-differential privacy noise independently per agent, optionally with per-agent consistency within an epoch, so different agents querying the same signal receive different values. The layer maintains per-agent privacy budgets with signal-type-specific query costs and composition-aware accounting, and can rate-limit or return maximally noised coordination-relevant signals upon budget exhaustion. The layer may also randomize signal freshness by scheduling per-agent update delays within signal-type-specific windows. A coordination-risk monitor computes a segment …

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Negotiation-Mediated Recommendation Platform For Autonomous Agent Commerce, Anonymous Jun 2026

Negotiation-Mediated Recommendation Platform For Autonomous Agent Commerce, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A platform mediates commerce between autonomous buyer and seller agents by treating recommendation as structured negotiation. The platform receives structured buyer requirements including hard constraints and preference information, and structured seller offers including multi-attribute flexibility ranges for terms such as price, delivery, warranty, and bundling. Compatibility scores are computed to select feasible matches and initiate a multi-round proposal and counter-proposal protocol. When negotiations stall, the platform computes or approximates Pareto-efficient candidate agreements and may select a bargaining-based compromise point. The platform may apply surplus-based fees and incentive-compatible transfer logic and may maintain credibility scores from observed negotiation behavior. Negotiation outcomes …

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Evaluator Stress Testing For Recommendation Quality Gaming Detection, Anonymous Jun 2026

Evaluator Stress Testing For Recommendation Quality Gaming Detection, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are described for stress-testing automated quality evaluators used in recommendation ranking to detect format-driven score gaming. For an item, the system generates format-perturbed variants that preserve semantic content and content-perturbed variants that preserve formatting, validates the variants using similarity and entailment or divergence constraints, and obtains evaluator scores for the item and variants. Format sensitivity and content sensitivity are computed from score differences, and a gaming score is derived as a ratio of sensitivities with an epsilon term. The gaming score may be used to compute an adjusted ranking score using category-calibrated parameters, to monitor item-, producer-, …

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Creator Incentive Preservation System Under Agent-Mediated Consumption In Recommendation Platforms, Anonymous Jun 2026

Creator Incentive Preservation System Under Agent-Mediated Consumption In Recommendation Platforms, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are described for operating a recommendation platform with creator-incentive preservation under agent-mediated consumption. The platform computes a per-creator Creator Activity Index combining production trends, quality trends, response sensitivity indicative of gaming, return-on-effort trajectory, and churn risk estimated via survival modeling. A platform Ecosystem Diversity Score is computed from active creator count, traffic concentration, topic entropy, and new-creator entry success. An inverse-relationship monitor estimates an effective recommendation-accuracy parameter from traffic distributions and identifies operation relative to a threshold regime in which increasing accuracy corresponds to decreasing creator production volume. A policy controller updates ranking using constrained optimization, including …

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Performative Stability Controller For Agent-Facing Recommendation Systems, Anonymous Jun 2026

Performative Stability Controller For Agent-Facing Recommendation Systems, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are disclosed for stabilizing agent-facing recommendation policies subject to performative feedback. Interaction data is collected from an exposed population receiving a deployed recommendation policy and a holdout population receiving baseline recommendations. A first predictor trained on exposed data and a second predictor trained on holdout data are compared to compute a performative effect magnitude, including a divergence between predicted distributions. Counterfactual demand estimation produces item-level recommendation dependence scores and contamination ratios separating organic and induced demand. A self-referential loop detector evaluates directionality using correlation and Granger causality and may apply Fourier analysis to detect feedback resonance. Stability …

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Parasocial Relationship Lifecycle Modeling For Creator Recommendations With Phase-Specific Ranking Strategies, Anonymous Jun 2026

Parasocial Relationship Lifecycle Modeling For Creator Recommendations With Phase-Specific Ranking Strategies, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described for recommending creator content using parasocial relationship lifecycle modeling. Interaction data are used to compute signals for each user-creator pair including cross-topic engagement consistency, engagement differential versus other creators within the same topics, and catalog coverage. A pair may be classified as parasocial based on thresholding these signals. A state machine assigns a lifecycle phase selected from discovery, rising attachment, peak attachment, fatigue, recovery, and disengagement using engagement level and engagement trends over time. Per-request ranking applies phase-specific strategies and exposure limits, selects a diversity dimension between topic diversity and creator diversity based on whether the user …

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Reactance-Aware Adaptive Personalization Intensity With Behavioral Detection And Dynamic Modulation In Recommendation Systems, Anonymous Jun 2026

Reactance-Aware Adaptive Personalization Intensity With Behavioral Detection And Dynamic Modulation In Recommendation Systems, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A recommendation system detects psychological reactance using explicit, implicit, and contextual behavioral signals and computes a per-user reactance score with temporal decay. A personalization intensity is determined per user and per content domain based on a domain-specific base intensity, the reactance score, and a context multiplier, subject to a minimum floor. The system modulates ranking in accordance with the intensity by adjusting feature-group weights and/or masking tiers of features. The system also generates an explanation whose framing corresponds to the computed intensity and truthfully reflects factors used for selection, including personal behavioral framing at higher intensities, neutral interest-based framing at …

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Challenge Preference Generation And Boundary Testing For Filter Bubble Prevention In Content Recommendation Systems, Anonymous Jun 2026

Challenge Preference Generation And Boundary Testing For Filter Bubble Prevention In Content Recommendation Systems, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are disclosed for managing negative preference boundaries in content recommendation. A boundary record is identified from explicit signals (e.g., natural-language dislikes, hides) or implicit signals (e.g., repeated exposure with low engagement) and stored with a confidence score and timestamps. Boundary confidence decays over time using an exponential decay with a floor. When a boundary’s decayed confidence meets a testing criterion, the system generates semantically adjacent challenge preferences using an ontology, including intersection bridges with liked topics, softened variants, or meta-content framings, and selects bridges using a plausibility score. One or more probe items matching a selected challenge …

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Multi-Modal Ai Platform For Integrated Manufacturing Build Monitoring And Automated Defect Analysis, Anonymous Jun 2026

Multi-Modal Ai Platform For Integrated Manufacturing Build Monitoring And Automated Defect Analysis, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A multi-modal manufacturing build monitoring platform ingests time-stamped functional test station results and inspection imagery from multiple factory stations. The platform stores the data in a unified store linked by unit identifiers and provides build-level, station-level, and device-level monitoring views. Statistical drift detection flags shifts in test result distributions, including capability metric changes and distribution shape changes. Computer vision models analyze AOI/SMT and other inspection images to detect visual defects such as solder anomalies, component placement issues, and chip/package damage. A correlation engine links visual defect patterns with numerical test trends across stations and units and generates ranked failure modes …

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Consumer-Oriented Marketplace Intelligence And Auction Optimization Systems For Digital Advertising Platforms, Anonymous Jun 2026

Consumer-Oriented Marketplace Intelligence And Auction Optimization Systems For Digital Advertising Platforms, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods are disclosed for consumer-centric marketplace intelligence in a digital advertising platform. Event data and social graph data are used to maintain a continuously updated consumer state vector per user including RFM scoring, lifecycle stage, predicted 13-month lifetime value tier, purchase propensity, and shopping rhythm. A per-user, per-category lifecycle model maintains probabilistic stage membership across stages including Unaware, Discovery, Research, Intent, Active, Champion, and Lapsed, and may represent cross-category migration sequences. A global product catalog knowledge graph normalizes products across multiple advertisers and stores cross-merchant relationships including complements, substitutes, and upgrade paths. An auction service computes auction scores …

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Sampling-Based Ground Truth Discovery For Data Asset Compliance Verification, Anonymous Jun 2026

Sampling-Based Ground Truth Discovery For Data Asset Compliance Verification, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

Sampling-based ground truth discovery for data asset compliance verification is disclosed. Regulated user identifiers are sampled from one or more monitored populations, including production sampling and/or controlled test users. For multiple target data assets across heterogeneous data store types, scannable columns are identified using heuristics, machine-learning predictions, and/or semantic annotations. Join queries are executed between sampled identifiers and target assets, including nested structures such as maps, arrays, and JSON, to obtain empirical observations of user data presence. Observations are evaluated against privacy expectations for asset groups using states including ALLOW, DISALLOW, ALLOW_EXCLUSIVE, and EXIST_DEFINITE, optionally incorporating dynamic carve-out and disallow …

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Privacy-Preserving Structured Logging Architecture For Semantic Artifacts In Machine Learning Inference Systems, Anonymous Jun 2026

Privacy-Preserving Structured Logging Architecture For Semantic Artifacts In Machine Learning Inference Systems, Anonymous

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Structured logging techniques are described for natural-language reasoning artifacts produced during inference in LLM-based recommendation systems. A reasoning chain may be decomposed into structured fields at multiple sensitivity levels, including non-sensitive numerical fields, low-sensitivity categorical fields, a scrubbed rationale, and a raw rationale. Sensitivity classification may include a first layer detecting explicit personal identifiers using pattern matching and a second layer detecting semantically sensitive categories using a sensitive-category dictionary. Scrubbing replaces sensitive sentences with category-level abstractions. The structured fields are routed to different storage tiers with differential access controls, including audit-logged access for restricted tiers. A retention policy engine enforces …

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