SPECIFIC LEGAL RISKS
Behold:
- False or Misleading Advertising / Consumer Protection
- Kenya: Consumer Protection Act, 2012 – prohibits false, misleading, or deceptive representations about services.
- EU: Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (2005/29/EC).
- US: FTC Act §5 (unfair or deceptive acts).
2.Risk:* If ELS outputs are framed as revealing actual hidden meaning or objective truth, regulators can argue the app misrepresents a speculative pattern tool as a validated analytical method.
- Negligent Misrepresentation / Reliance Liability
- Common law doctrine (Kenya, UK, US).
- Kenya: Applied via tort principles under the Law of Contract Act and case law.
4.Risk:* Users relying on ELS outputs for decisions involving documents, identity, authenticity, religion, or history may claim foreseeable reliance on an authoritative-seeming system.
- Defamation and Injurious Falsehood
- Kenya: Defamation Act (Cap. 36).
- UK: Defamation Act 2013.
- US: State defamation laws.
6.Risk:* ELS interpretations that imply fraud, deception, conspiracy, or hidden intent in modern documents or names can be construed as defamatory—even if “algorithmic” or probabilistic.
- Scientific and Technical Misrepresentation
- EU: Digital Services Act (DSA) + AI Act (risk-based classification).
- General consumer law principles globally.
8.Risk:* Calling ELS an “algorithm” or “analysis engine” without clarifying its non-validated, heuristic nature risks being treated as misrepresenting scientific credibility.
- Data Protection and Purpose Limitation
- Kenya: Data Protection Act, 2019.
- EU: GDPR (Articles on purpose limitation and profiling).
10.Risk:* Users upload documents for translation or inspection, but ELS generates speculative secondary interpretations. Regulators may argue this exceeds the original processing purpose.
- Automated Decision-Making / Profiling Restrictions
- EU: GDPR Article 22.
- *EU AI Act (forthcoming enforcement)*.
12.Risk: If ELS outputs are framed as determinations (authentic/fake, real/false meaning), the app risks being categorized as automated decision support without required safeguards.
- Cultural and Religious Protection Laws
- Kenya: Constitutional protections on religion and cultural heritage.
- Various jurisdictions: Cultural heritage and hate-speech-adjacent statutes.
14.Risk:* Monetized “hidden meaning” extraction from sacred texts can be construed as exploitative, misleading, or culturally harmful depending on framing.
- Product Liability (Software as a Service)
- EU: Product liability regime expanding to software and AI systems.
- Common law jurisdictions: Negligence-based liability.
16.Risk:* If ELS is marketed as a functional analysis tool rather than exploratory software, failures or misleading outputs can be framed as defective service design.
- Platform and App Store Compliance
- Google Play / Apple App Store policies (misleading claims, pseudoscience).
18.Risk:* Even if courts never get involved, overstated ELS claims can get the app delisted faster than a legal injunction ever could.
More proof that you can make an app in 30 days.. but you can’t register it in 30 years.