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Welcome to the public documentation wiki for PolicyWatcher, an open-source civic-tech platform for monitoring policy, privacy, terms-of-service and AI governance changes across major technology and financial platforms.

PolicyWatcher is built around one operating principle:

Do not expose what cannot be explained.

The platform does not certify companies, does not provide legal advice, and does not claim that automated analysis is absolute. Its purpose is to make policy changes easier to observe, inspect and discuss while keeping the evidence chain visible.

What PolicyWatcher Does

• Monitors configured public policy sources for major technology and financial companies.
• Records retrieval evidence, source status, final URLs, timestamps and hashes.
• Detects source-backed text changes through SHA-256 comparison.
• Uses AI-assisted analysis to produce structured summaries and policy-risk signals.
• Applies public evidence gates so seeded, incomplete or uncertain records do not appear as verified public data.
• Provides an admin console for Dataset QA, scan monitoring, source remediation, access logs and VPS service monitoring.

Current Release

The current public track is PolicyWatcher v3.5.1 Audit Operations, part of the broader 3.5 Confidence Release.

This release focuses on:

• retrieval traceability;
• Dataset QA;
• source suspension;
• re-baseline protection;
• public evidence gating;
• admin auditability;
• VPS renderer and operations monitoring;
• explicit non-certification boundaries.

Quick Navigation

• Project Overview
• Confidence Methodology
• System Architecture
• Policy Ingestion Pipeline
• Dataset QA
• Admin Console
• VPS Services
• Deployment Guide
• API Reference
• Security Model
• Roadmap
• Release Notes

Public Links

• Website: https://www.policywatcher.online
• Repository: https://github.com/sev7enITA/policywatcher
• Trust & Quality Evidence: https://www.policywatcher.online/trust
• Confidence Methodology: https://www.policywatcher.online/methodology/confidence