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Event Sourcing vs Audit Tables vs Change Data Capture

One address change recorded as a domain event, a trigger audit row and a Debezium CDC event: which can reproduce a past state and show who and why.

October 28, 2026• 14 min read
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EU AI Act Dates After the Digital Omnibus (2026/1744)

Which EU AI Act obligations apply when, after Regulation (EU) 2026/1744: high-risk dates, Article 50 marking, GPAI, prohibitions and AI literacy.

October 28, 2026• 15 min read
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EU AI Act Article 50: Transparency and AI Content Marking

EU AI Act Article 50 read clause by clause: chatbot disclosure, machine-readable marking, deepfake labels, and what the 2026 Code of Practice asks for.

October 28, 2026• 16 min read
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EU AI Act Article 12: Record-Keeping and Logging Explained

What Article 12 of the EU AI Act requires high-risk AI systems to log, who keeps the logs under Articles 19 and 26, for how long, and from when.

October 28, 2026• 16 min read
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GDPR Erasure and Rectification in Event-Sourced Systems

How to honour GDPR Articles 16 and 17 in append-only and event-sourced stores: corrections as new events, payload separation, crypto-shredding, backups.

October 28, 2026• 13 min read
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EU AI Act Article 10 and Annex IV: Data Governance

What Article 10 of the EU AI Act requires of training, validation and testing data, how Annex IV documents it, and what changed with the Digital Omnibus.

October 28, 2026• 18 min read
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Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Practical Guide

What context engineering is, how it differs from prompt engineering, and how to budget an agent's context by origin, provenance and keep/compress/drop.

October 28, 2026• 15 min read
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EIOPA AI Opinion: Data Governance and Records for Insurers

What EIOPA's August 2025 Opinion on AI governance asks of EU insurers: scope, data governance, record-keeping, explainability, oversight and third parties.

October 28, 2026• 14 min read
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Data Integrity Guidance Compared: FDA, EMA, MHRA, PIC/S, WHO

Side-by-side comparison of FDA, MHRA, PIC/S, WHO and EU data integrity guidance: definitions, ALCOA lists, audit-trail review, governance, retention.

October 28, 2026• 15 min read
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BCBS 239 Explained: The 14 Risk Data Principles

The 14 BCBS 239 principles for risk data aggregation and reporting, what supervisors found in practice, and the checks a system of record must pass.

October 28, 2026• 14 min read
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Business Records as Evidence: FRE 803(6), 901, 902 and AI

How US federal evidence rules 803(6), 901 and 902(11), (13), (14) apply to database records, hash-verified copies and AI output, with a checklist.

October 28, 2026• 14 min read
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Beneficial Ownership Data: Resolving Who Owns Whom

How FATF, the US CDD rule, OFAC and the EU AML Regulation define beneficial owners, and why entities must be resolved before percentages are computed.

October 28, 2026• 15 min read
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Data Contracts Explained: Producers, Consumers, Evidence

What a data contract holds beyond column types, how ODCS v3.2.0 structures it, what dbt model contracts enforce, and where quality checks fit.

October 28, 2026• 14 min read
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C2PA Content Credentials: Manifests, Claims, Signatures

How C2PA Content Credentials work under spec 2.5: manifests, claims, assertions, hard and soft bindings, trust lists, and what validation proves.

October 28, 2026• 14 min read
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Audit Trail Review in GxP: Capture, Protect, Review

What GxP audit trails must record, how to protect them, and how often to review them, read from 21 CFR 11.10(e), Annex 11, FDA, MHRA, EMA and ICH E6(R3).

October 28, 2026• 16 min read
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Anchoring a Claim to a Passage: Web Annotation Selectors

How W3C Web Annotation selectors (TextQuote, TextPosition, Fragment, Range) and Time State anchor a claim to an exact evidence span that survives edits.

October 28, 2026• 12 min read
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21 CFR Part 11 Explained: Records, Signatures, Audit Trails

A section-by-section reading of FDA's 21 CFR Part 11: scope, closed and open systems, the 11.10(e) audit trail, e-signatures and current FDA guidance.

October 28, 2026• 16 min read
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ALCOA and ALCOA+ Explained: Data Integrity Attributes

The nine ALCOA+ data integrity attributes, as FDA, MHRA, WHO, PIC/S and EMA word them, with typical failures and the checks a record system must pass.

October 28, 2026• 14 min read
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ISO 42001 vs NIST AI RMF vs EU AI Act: One Evidence Base

ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act compared: what each instrument is, who it binds, the records it asks for, and one evidence register.

October 28, 2026• 15 min read
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Data Provenance vs Data Lineage vs Audit Trail

Lineage, provenance and audit trails answer three different questions about the same value. Definitions, a worked example, and which rules ask for which.

October 28, 2026• 15 min read
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Chain of Custody for Digital Evidence, Collection to Court

How a digital chain of custody works: ISO/IEC 27037 stages, hash values, the custody log, US authentication under FRE 901 and 902(13)-(14), and cloud data.

October 28, 2026• 13 min read
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