What we read, what we keep, and what we do not have yet.

The curated library is public feeds only: RSS and podcast feeds, published captions, changelogs and release notes, and regulator feeds such as Federal Register notices and agency press releases. Nothing in it is behind a paywall or a login. On plans that take your own URLs, a username and password written before the host (user:pass@) are removed or refused; a token anywhere else in the address is kept as written, and Briefwire cannot tell whether a feed you add is public, so what you add is your call — Terms s4 permits only sources you are entitled to have monitored. Briefwire never asks for your own documents, mail or CRM.

A source URL you paste is fetched through a guarded client that resolves the host once, refuses private and link-local addresses, caps the response in bytes while streaming and follows redirects only to addresses that pass the same checks.

The raw transcript of a source is processed and deleted after 7 days. What stays is the line itself: a paraphrase of at most two sentences, its type, its sources and the link back to where it was said — and, for each promise in the commitment ledger, dated or not, the speaker's exact words (at most 600 characters). Briefwire never downloads or stores audio or video itself. When a podcast publishes no transcript, the episode is not read: its audio is not transcribed, and its address is sent to no one.

Sign-in happens through your email, with a one-time link; we never ask for a password. Payment details are held by the billing processor and never reach Briefwire. Everything in the account exports as CSV or JSON, and the account can be deleted, from Settings → Data.

Keys are shown once at creation and stored only as a SHA-256 hash; a key is read-only and sees only the watchlists the account owns.

Every delivery carries an X-Briefwire-Signature header — a timestamp and an HMAC-SHA256 over the timestamp and the raw body, keyed with the endpoint’s secret — so a receiver can reject anything not sent by us.