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Continuous accountability for Verified bots

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What happened

A driver’s license tells you who someone is and that they passed a driving test, not whether they’ll drive responsibly in the future. The same is true for bots: verifying who operates it creates accountability, but trust depends on what it does next. A known bot can still ignore website preferences, overwhelm origins, or evade controls. It’s not always malicious — often it’s just a misconfiguration or a bug. As we d…

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