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← Delete Your Data

From awareness to a machine

Chapter 3 of 5 · Section 8 of 12

Sections

1. Intro

  • 1. Agenda
  • 2. 2022 — a map, drawn by hand

2. The data that follows you

  • 3. You have a file you never opened
  • 4. The footprint is a threat model

3. From awareness to a machine

  • 5. Find, dispute, delete, prove
  • 6. Dispute — an attorney on the report
  • 7. Delete — a client can only ask
  • 8. The trust boundary is structural

4. Access to justice at product scale

  • 9. Operated by the Foundation
  • 10. Prove it without disclosing it

5. Wrap Up

  • 11. Delete your data
  • 12. Resources
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The trust boundary is structural

The system that helps you delete your data is built not to expose it. The telemetry rule is structural, not a policy memo: identifiers and counts, never client content.

From mcp/src/tools — the rule the whole codebase enforces: a notation_id, a service name, an outcome, a duration, and a status code may enter a span or a log. A client name, an answer body, an email address, or a document body may not.

Presenter notes

The second invariant is the boundary around the data while we hold it. Observability is where sensitive systems usually leak, because logging everything is the path of least resistance. Navigator inverts the default: every binary shares one telemetry seam, and the rule is that identifiers and counts cross the boundary while client content never does. The collector runs a fail-closed redaction processor, and the code keeps request bodies out of spans in the first place. For a room that has read one too many breach postmortems, this is the slide that matters: the boundary is written down, enforced, and testable, not aspirational.

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