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Essay
Data Minimisation and the Architecture of Restraint
Printed volume·July 2026·Davide Scuteri Moretti
Themes
- — Governance
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Essay 14 of The Discipline of Data Platforms. The complete text is available in the printed volume; it is catalogued here as part of the canonical series of thirty essays.
In this series
- 16. Contract-First Data Architecture: Meaning Before Movement
- 17. The Task as the Atomic Unit of Data Computation
- 18. Determinism Is Not Repetition: The Conditions of Reproducible Data
- 19. Idempotence and the Right to Recompute
- 20. Append-Only Architectures and the Ethics of Preserving History
- 21. Versioning the Meaning of Data
- 22. Schema Drift and Semantic Drift
- 23. From Conceptual Lineage to Executable Lineage
- 24. Data Quality Is a Computational Property
- 25. Selective Quarantine: Failure Without Total Arrest
- 26. Observability Beyond Logs
- 27. Data SLAs: Time as an Architectural Contract
- 28. Governance by Design: Rules That Execute
- 29. Data Minimisation and the Architecture of Restraint
- 30. The Data Platform as an Internal Product
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