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  "authorityState": "FACT- AND STATE-POSITION-DEPENDENT; MULTIPLE DOCTRINES DISPUTED",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://xn--mwe.com/law/matrices/international-law-cyber-and-autonomous-effects/",
  "id": "JMX-K05-INTERNATIONAL",
  "name": "International law — cyber and autonomous effects",
  "qualification": "Not legal advice; K05 records disputes and decision factors; it does not issue a dispositive international-law opinion.",
  "releaseId": "K12-2026-08-16",
  "rows": [
    {
      "boundary": "Some states treat sovereignty as a primary rule; others use it as a principle tied to intervention or force thresholds.",
      "issue": "Sovereignty",
      "status": "STATE POSITIONS DIFFER"
    },
    {
      "boundary": "Technical intrusion alone does not answer every intervention question.",
      "issue": "Non-intervention",
      "status": "COERCION AND DOMAINE RÉSERVÉ ANALYSIS REQUIRED"
    },
    {
      "boundary": "Must not be treated as an unrestricted license for private retaliation.",
      "issue": "Countermeasures and necessity",
      "status": "STRICT CONDITIONS AND ATTRIBUTION QUESTIONS"
    },
    {
      "boundary": "Capability, intent, last opportunity, scale/effects, necessity and proportionality remain material.",
      "issue": "Self-defense and imminence",
      "status": "CONTESTED FOR ANTICIPATORY AND NON-STATE-ACTOR CASES"
    },
    {
      "boundary": "Formal government control can increase state attribution and accountability rather than privatize it away.",
      "issue": "State responsibility for contractors",
      "status": "DIRECTION, CONTROL AND ATTRIBUTION ANALYSIS"
    }
  ],
  "slug": "international-law-cyber-and-autonomous-effects",
  "sourceIds": [
    "SRC-WH-CYBER-CRIME-MEMO-2026"
  ]
}