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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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audit trail

/ˈɔːdɪt treɪl/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A complete and immutable record of every action, retained for exactly thirty days, then quietly rotated out.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A tamper-evident chronological record of who accessed or changed data, and when.

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See also
  • access controlsA least-privilege model in which forty-one people have privilege, because requesting removal is harder than requesting access.
  • data lineage for auditA diagram that is accurate up to the join where someone exported it to a spreadsheet and emailed it.
  • regulatory reportingThe one report whose definition of 'customer' is finally agreed, because the penalty for drift is statutory.