audit trail
noun
: a record of a sequence of events (such as actions performed by a computer) from which a history may be reconstructed
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Langley added that Flock has built some guardrails into its technology, including audit trails that show when data was accessed.
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
This view is baked into Palantir’s technology itself in the form of an audit trail.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Companies can do this by providing features like audit trails and live sandbox views that create a live record for each prompt, turning a potentially opaque flow into something traceable.
—William Jones, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
In the background, Chicago’s own audit trail was public and unambiguous.
—Dell Cameron, Wired News, 12 Nov. 2025
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
This view is baked into Palantir’s technology itself in the form of an audit trail.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Companies can do this by providing features like audit trails and live sandbox views that create a live record for each prompt, turning a potentially opaque flow into something traceable.
—William Jones, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
In the background, Chicago’s own audit trail was public and unambiguous.
—Dell Cameron, Wired News, 12 Nov. 2025
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“Audit trail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audit%20trail. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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