Data Sourcing & Provenance Audit

data-sourcing-provenance · v1.1.1 · paid

Audits how contact data enters the system — from scraping, APIs, purchased lists, form submissions, and referrals. Validates provenance tracking, legal sourcing practices, and ingestion pipeline reliability.

Source Management

source-management · weight 0.3

Source type enum enforced
ab-000876
high
Per-source quality scoring implemented
ab-000877
medium
Source configuration versioned in code
ab-000878
low
Dead source detection with alerting
ab-000879
low
Source-level metrics tracked
ab-000880
low

Legal & Ethical Sourcing

legal-sourcing · weight 0.25

robots.txt parser present and enforced for scrapers
ab-000881
critical
Scraping rate limits configurable per-domain
ab-000882
high
Purchased list age verification
ab-000883
high
API rate limit compliance enforced
ab-000884
high
No scraping of login-walled content without ToS authorization
ab-000885
critical

Provenance Tracking

provenance-tracking · weight 0.25

Every contact has source_type, source_id, and acquired_at
ab-000886
critical
Provenance fields are immutable after creation
ab-000887
high
Enrichment chain of custody tracked
ab-000888
medium
Provenance queryable for compliance lookups
ab-000889
high
Source deletion cascades or anonymizes contacts
ab-000890
medium
Provenance includes consent context
ab-000891
low

Data Ingestion Pipeline

ingestion-pipeline · weight 0.2

Schema validation on ingest
ab-000892
high
Dedup check before insert
ab-000893
high
Malformed records quarantined, not silently discarded
ab-000894
medium
Ingestion throughput monitoring
ab-000895
low
Backpressure when pipeline is saturated
ab-000896
low