ICCA: Accountability and Role Boundaries in Identity‑Constructed Systems
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Accountability in traditional organisations is identity‑bound. Responsibility, authority, and liability attach to individuals, roles, and hierarchical positions. This model requires visibility, behavioural metadata, continuity, and correlatable artefacts. Supervisors observe behaviour, track performance, enforce compliance, and maintain accountability through surveillance.ICCA eliminates all five mechanisms.Provider‑blind architecture ensures that identity cannot be seen, metadata cannot accumulate, continuity cannot form, correlation cannot occur, inference cannot emerge, and prediction cannot be constructed. Behaviour cannot become a surface. Humans cannot become variables. Accountability cannot be tied to identity.This collapse forces accountability to be reconstructed around geometric constraints rather than behavioural oversight. Roles become temporary identity containers. Boundaries become structural. Responsibility attaches to items, not people. Accountability becomes architectural rather than observational.
Source: Figshare
Author: Karl A L Smith
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204028203