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Audit trail data minimization — raw network identifiers removed, hashed-only records remain

Our compliance log that tracks account changes now stores only hashed identifiers. The change advances GDPR Article 5(1)(c) data minimization without compromising row-continuity needed for Polish 5-year tax retention obligations.

Rob, CEO & Founder
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Database changes ship behind a pre-flight verification gate — and it caught a real issue

Before any destructive change to our compliance trail database, an automated verification pass confirms the operation will not lose audit-trail integrity. The pattern caught a real divergence this session and prevented data loss.

Rob, CEO & Founder
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Disclosed data-handling figures stay aligned with implementation — by build-time construction

When privacy notices, marketing pages, PDF DPAs, and the live service all reference the same retention periods and processing limits, drift between them is a real misleading-claim risk under EU consumer-protection law. Here is how HumanKey closes that class of drift mechanically.

Rob, CEO & Founder
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Quarterly ecosystem review — Q2 2026

An operator-side update on the review pattern we use to keep our customer-facing surfaces consistent. We publish the methodology — not the findings — and explain why.

Rob, CEO & Founder
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EU AI Act Article 50 — 90 Days Since the Banner Shipped

What we learned after 90 days of running an AI-transparency banner under EU AI Act Article 50: what we measured, where the wording was harder than the engineering, and what we'd change.

Rob, CEO & Founder
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EU AI Act & Website Compliance: What Publishers Need to Know

The EU AI Act becomes fully applicable in August 2026 with strict transparency obligations. Here's what website owners need to understand about AI crawler compliance and content rights.

Rob, CEO & Founder