Data Acquisition & Provenance
Documented permissions and evidence across the data lifecycle.
Review draft. This document has not been adopted as binding terms and is not legal advice.
Decision record
Discovery is followed by classification and authorization before acquisition. The registry captures method, access class, evidence reference, terms/robots assessment, reviewer, effective dates and restrictions. Robots directives inform access decisions; they do not create a license. Absence of a prohibition is not unrestricted authorization.
Enforcement
Pending, permission-required, blocked, prohibited, expired and terms-changed sources cannot acquire through the guarded pipeline. Publication is a separate permission. Material listing fields carry their evidence type, observation date and method. A source’s legacy approval or partner label is not legal authorization.
History and response
Corrections append evidence rather than silently rewriting provenance. Public suppression prevents continued display while legal/audit retention is assessed. Raw payload retention must remain necessary and scoped. Acquisition decisions and changes to permissions need auditable review.
Items for counsel and operator review
Approve assessment standards, factual-only allowlists, evidence retention, source-specific restrictions and review cadence.
Version history
2026-09-05 — Initial engineering draft for counsel review; not adopted. Permanent version