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Security

Principles first, claims later

These are the security principles Bobby Receipts is being designed around. They describe intent, not a verified implementation.

Bobby Receipts is under development. Security architecture and operational controls will be verified before pilot use.

Design principles

What the product is being built to protect

  • Private by default

    Documents are intended to be private to the workspace they were uploaded into, and visible only to the people that workspace includes.

  • Workspace separation

    Separation between workspaces is a design requirement: a personal workspace and a company workspace must never see each other's documents.

  • Role-based access

    The direction is that what a person can see, change and approve follows their role in the workspace.

  • Controlled approval history

    Approval decisions are intended to be recorded as history rather than silently overwritten.

  • Auditability

    Being able to answer 'what happened to this document, and who did it' is a stated product requirement.

  • Secure provider connections

    When mailbox and storage connections are built in later phases, they are intended to request the narrowest access that works, and to be revocable.

  • Export and deletion controls

    Getting your documents out, and having them deleted, are product requirements rather than optional extras.

  • Data minimization

    The intent is to hold what the workflow needs and no more.

  • Your documents are not a product to sell

    Selling the contents of your receipts is not part of the product plan.

Explicit non-claims

What Bobby Receipts does not claim

  • No encryption claim is made here, because no storage architecture has been verified yet.
  • No certification is claimed: not SOC 2, not ISO 27001, and no audit has taken place.
  • No regulatory compliance status is claimed, in any jurisdiction.
  • No security testing result is claimed, because none has been performed and published.
  • The product is not production-ready and is not offered for real document handling.