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ADR 242 · Accepted

A provider or a task tightens the privacy level

Context

ADR-064 has one level for the installation. An installation with a provider it trusts and one it does not has to choose the lower level for both, or store more of the second than it wants.

Decision

A provider and a task can name a level, and it can only tighten. Both records get a privacy_level field, empty by default. The level a content is stored at is the strictest of the global level, the level of the provider and, for a queued run of a task, the level of the task, through PrivacyLevel::strictest(). A value looser than the global level does nothing, so editing a record cannot open what an administrator closed. The field offers no full for that reason.

Where it applies. Three stores keep content, and RunPrivacyLevelResolver answers for each:

  • the events of a run, through RunStepPrivacyFilter;

  • the answer a queued run keeps, in QueuedRunCoordinator;

  • evaluation details, where the result names its generator's provider.

The audit rows of SkillAuditRepository keep the global level: they belong to a skill, and no provider is involved. A segment resolves the level of its run once.

The provider of a run is the one its configuration's model names. A level that cannot be read is none, because the question is what may be stored.

Consequences

  • ●● An installation can keep run content for a local model and none for an external one.

  • ◑ A configuration in criteria mode names no model, so only the global level and the task apply to it. Every preset of a Use Case Pack is one.

  • ◑ A fallback that serves a call on another provider does not change the level of the run.

  • ◑ A task at none or metadata keeps no answer, so a queued result cannot be read. The global metadata keeps it (ADR-234), and a level tightened to metadata does not, because the field says no content.

  • ◑ A copy made by an editor without access to the field follows the global level.

  • ◑ Evaluation details of a run that does not name its generator stay at the global level.

  • ◑ Governance shows the global level.

Net Score: +2

Alternatives considered

A level that can also loosen. Rejected: it would make an edit of a provider record a privacy decision the global setting no longer bounds.

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