Consent Gate

Consent obligations are easy to satisfy at collection and easy to lose downstream. Content gathered under a specific notice may be reused for purposes the subject never agreed to, and indexing for general AI retrieval is frequently one of them. A gate makes the permission a precondition of processing rather than an assumption about it, which means the absence of consent produces exclusion rather than silence.

Consent state can be carried as a property of a record in Centralpoint and evaluated during ingestion, so material lacking the required permission is never indexed rather than being filtered from results. Because the evaluation is part of the transformation, the exclusion is provable from the record's own state.