Building a Privacy-First Biography and Evidence System

Description and use

Building a privacy‑first biography system with a private evidence archive and a public biography, enforcing strict privacy rules and a secure publication workflow.

Problem

How to preserve personal historical records while preventing sensitive data from leaking into public repositories.

Outcome

Implemented private-by-default fields, explicit public-field allowlists, robust output encoding, strong validation, provenance-aware verification, tamper detection, and privacy-focused automated tests, leading to a secure, privacy-first biography system.

Workflow

• Preserve original artifact privately
• Calculate and record integrity hash
• Classify sensitivity
• Record support and limitations
• Seek corroborating evidence
• Produce redacted factual summary
• Review summary for privacy/security/legal risk
• Publish approved summary
• Maintain revision trail

Evidence

Private archive must never expose passwords, seed phrases, private keys, card numbers, bank info, addresses, or third‑party personal data.

Source

The pull request received a formal Changes Requested review and has not been merged.

Source