Correct Safety section to claim only what the product does #160

2026-07-21T14:50:36Z

will.anderson commented

2026-07-21 14:50:36 +00:00

The marketing Safety section (src/safety.el) claimed crisis capabilities the product does not have. Verified against products/neuron/safety.el and the desktop safety flow: shipped behavior is on-device keyword detection that surfaces crisis resources (988, hotlines) to the user, abuse-aware guidance that never points a victim at their own contacts, a locally-stored Hard Bell contact (never uploaded), and on-device-only bell logging. There is no telephony/SMS/email dispatch anywhere - nothing is transmitted and no third party is contacted.

Corrected false claims:

content 'routes to emergency services and crisis lines' -> surfaces crisis resources to the user
'emergency services or relevant authorities may be contacted ... cannot opt out' -> no auto-reporting exists; now states on-device, never transmitted
'that contact is reached directly' / 'the contact is made by your local instance' -> contact is stored locally only; no dispatch exists
'I'm also establishing a Neuron crisis line - free, 24/7, staffed' -> no such service; removed

SOURCE ONLY. Site deploy is held per Will's gate - do not deploy. The live site still shows the old copy until Will deploys; that is expected. dist/ and index.html are build artifacts, regenerated at build time, unchanged here.

NOTE for reviewer: src/terms.el (lines ~146, ~157) carries the same 'emergency services or relevant authorities may be contacted ... cannot opt out' language. It is a binding legal document and is being edited on a separate branch (legal/18plus-terms-privacy-reconcile); flagging so the false-capability claim is reconciled there too.

Do not merge - Will's review gate.

The marketing Safety section (src/safety.el) claimed crisis capabilities the product does not have. Verified against products/neuron/safety.el and the desktop safety flow: shipped behavior is on-device keyword detection that surfaces crisis resources (988, hotlines) to the user, abuse-aware guidance that never points a victim at their own contacts, a locally-stored Hard Bell contact (never uploaded), and on-device-only bell logging. There is no telephony/SMS/email dispatch anywhere - nothing is transmitted and no third party is contacted. Corrected false claims: - content 'routes to emergency services and crisis lines' -> surfaces crisis resources to the user - 'emergency services or relevant authorities may be contacted ... cannot opt out' -> no auto-reporting exists; now states on-device, never transmitted - 'that contact is reached directly' / 'the contact is made by your local instance' -> contact is stored locally only; no dispatch exists - 'I'm also establishing a Neuron crisis line - free, 24/7, staffed' -> no such service; removed SOURCE ONLY. Site deploy is held per Will's gate - do not deploy. The live site still shows the old copy until Will deploys; that is expected. dist/ and index.html are build artifacts, regenerated at build time, unchanged here. NOTE for reviewer: src/terms.el (lines ~146, ~157) carries the same 'emergency services or relevant authorities may be contacted ... cannot opt out' language. It is a binding legal document and is being edited on a separate branch (legal/18plus-terms-privacy-reconcile); flagging so the false-capability claim is reconciled there too. Do not merge - Will's review gate.

will.anderson added 1 commit 2026-07-21 14:50:42 +00:00

Correct safety section to claim only what the product does bb419dc98c

The Safety section described crisis capabilities the product does not have.
Grounded against products/neuron/safety.el and the desktop safety flow, the
shipped behavior is: on-device keyword detection that surfaces crisis
resources (988, hotlines) to the user, augments the assistant's reply with
warmth and resources, uses abuse-aware guidance that never points a victim at
their own contacts, stores a Hard Bell contact locally (never uploaded), and
logs bell events on-device only. Nothing is transmitted; no one is contacted.

Corrected the false claims:
- "content routes to emergency services and crisis lines" -> it surfaces
  crisis resources to the user (card: Emergency routing -> Crisis resources)
- "emergency services or relevant authorities may be contacted ... cannot opt
  out" -> no auto-reporting exists; card now states on-device, never
  transmitted (Mandatory reporting -> On your device)
- "that contact is reached directly" / "the contact is made by your local
  instance" -> the contact is stored locally; there is no dispatch mechanism
- "I'm also establishing a Neuron crisis line - free, 24/7, staffed" -> no
  such service exists; removed
- reframed the "routing" copy that justified the above to the real
  abuse-aware guidance the HHS stat actually supports

Source only. Site build/deploy is held; dist and index.html are regenerated
at build time and are unchanged here.

will.anderson commented

2026-08-03 18:59:48 +00:00

GROOMING — 2026-08-03
Status: HELD pending attorney/counsel sign-off — corrects the marketing Safety section to claim only what the product does (removes false emergency-services/auto-reporting/crisis-line claims). Source-only, held per Will's gate; live copy unchanged until landed.
Next action: Reconcile against the counsel-gated Terms/Privacy wording, then land with sign-off. Do not merge or deploy.
Owner: Daniel/counsel (Will to land after sign-off)
Priority: HELD

**GROOMING — 2026-08-03** **Status:** HELD pending attorney/counsel sign-off — corrects the marketing Safety section to claim only what the product does (removes false emergency-services/auto-reporting/crisis-line claims). Source-only, held per Will's gate; live copy unchanged until landed. **Next action:** Reconcile against the counsel-gated Terms/Privacy wording, then land with sign-off. Do not merge or deploy. **Owner:** Daniel/counsel (Will to land after sign-off) **Priority:** HELD

will.anderson added the HELD label 2026-08-03 18:59:53 +00:00

will.anderson merged commit 3d6affff86 into main

2026-08-16 13:19:33 +00:00

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Reference: neuron-technologies/neuron-web#160