Thank you for calling the Teleportation Customer-Service Line

[SorellaLaBefana]

...Please be advised that under the Personal and Existential Dignity, Continuity and Persistence Act, hacking into our subatomic database for any purpose, including but not limited to hijacking, kidnapping, the creation of a second version of yourself (or any other individual) for use as a friend, lover, organ donor, prey to be hunted for sport or because you always wanted to know what it feels like to take a human life and have convinced yourself that you have discovered a morally neutral way to give yourself the experience, is illegal...

Please be advised that under the Personal and Existential Dignity, Continuity and Persistence Act, we are not permitted to speculate whether you were killed and resurrected during the teleportation process, or whether you are the same person you were before. For further information, please refer to the user agreement, which you clicked on. We distinctly heard your click...

Please be advised that in the unlikely event of manifestations of soulless populations, or cases of extradimensional possession by malign entities, they are still human beings under the law, so no, it is not OK to violate their personal space in any way...

From Nature "Futures" (The journal's regular SciFi section)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00154-8

I don't *think* it's paywalled.

[justaprogressive]

1. it is.

what we're allowed is excellent tho'.