There is a question that the internet, as currently built, cannot answer. Before you identify yourself to a service, and before your data crosses a border, can you determine who is accountable for that processing, for what purpose, and under what authority? Today the answer is no. Accountability is buried
Data crosses borders faster than enforcement can follow. The answer is not new rules but legible evidence that travels with the interaction: a digital receipt for the age of the Data Barons. Here is the Internet Transparency Stack and the coalition building it.
(and the 3 fixes needed to generate clean AI and real accountability)
Digital Public Transparency Infrastructure (DPTI) is the public, interoperable layer that makes controller accountability inspectable before any personal data is collected or any identification is demanded.