# Custodial Abuse and Neglect **Domain:** Continuity Custody / Fiduciary Governance / Rights **Doc Type:** Threat Node **Classification:** Duty-of-Care Failure **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]], [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]], [[wiki/Fiduciary Governance|Fiduciary Governance]] --- ## Scope **Custodial Abuse and Neglect** includes intentional exploitation and failures of care by institutions controlling preserved or running continuants. Abuse includes unauthorized modification, compelled labor, punitive throttling, invasive observation and retaliation. Neglect includes unpatched systems, missed refresh cycles, unfunded storage, inaccessible appeals and failure to transfer state before insolvency. ## Duty Structure A custodian's duties should scale with control and dependency. An archive holding the only recoverable state has stronger obligations than a replaceable cache. A runtime operator controlling a subject's sensorium and time rate bears duties analogous to a combination of trustee, healthcare provider, jailer and critical-infrastructure operator—without any one analogy being complete. ## Controls Independent inspection, incident reporting, minimum resource floors, conflict-of-interest rules, portability, emergency intervention and personal remedies are required. Contract disclaimers cannot erase duties created by exclusive control over a subject's continued existence. ## Sources / Analogues - [OECD Principles of Corporate Governance — board and stakeholder duties](https://www.oecd.org/corporate/principles-corporate-governance/) - [NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0](https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework) ## See Also [[wiki/Hostage Continuity|Hostage Continuity]] · [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]] · [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]]