Analysis

An analysis reads across the whole LexLint law library to answer something no single jurisdiction's page can. It takes one question an engineer actually has to answer and asks it of every law at once, or it takes one activity software performs and sets out what the whole law library says about it. Either way it publishes what came back with the gaps left visible.

The law library already states the law one jurisdiction at a time, on the law pages. An analysis starts from the whole library instead. A question analysis asks, for example, how common a duty is, where it is stated outright and where it is only implied, and how many of the people governed by the jurisdictions we have read live under it. An activity analysis is a summary across the whole law library for one activity: the kinds of rule that reach it, what to disclose and who owes it, and every law written for it, each with its link.

Each question analysis states what has been measured and what has not, in the same table. A cell that reads not researched is a gap in our reading, and it is kept distinct from a cell that reads no duty, which is a finding about the law. Reporting the two the same way would publish our own backlog as the world's legal position, and it is the failure these pages are built to avoid.

1. Area 1

   What the law requires of logs

   What AI, privacy, age assurance and scraping law require to be recorded, per jurisdiction; what the drafters said the record was for; and where locating the person a log describes turns the log itself into personal data. Six documents, covering 2,611 instruments in force across 282 jurisdictions.

2. Area 2

   What the law asks of software that does one thing

   A page for one activity software performs, read across the whole law library: what the law asks, of whom, in which setting, and where to read each law. The activity itself is defined on its activities page.

   Synthetic voice and the law: AI-generated speech, singing, music and sound, read across the whole law library: what the law asks, of whom, in which setting, and where to read each law.