Incentivizing sustainable data exchanges through unique contextualization of history and destiny

Exchanging raw data points creates risk and compliance costs for both senders and recipients. This paper argues that legal frameworks alone do not provide enough practical incentives for responsible exchange and proposes Trust Envelopes as a way to encapsulate data together with instantiated provenance and usage conditions specific to a particular transaction. The goal is to lower the effort required for lawful, auditable, and purpose-bound data exchange on the Web.