Compliance
Job Sentinel’s compliance posture follows directly from what it is: a candidate-side, local-first assistant. This is the honest map of what applies and why.
What kind of tool this is (and isn’t)
Job Sentinel helps a job seeker:
- monitor portals and search public job sources,
- track their own applications, and
- tailor their own résumé and cover letters.
It is not an Automated Employment Decision Tool (AEDT): it does not screen, score, rank, or filter othercandidates on an employer’s behalf, and it makes no hiring decisions about anyone. That distinction is what determines which laws attach.
EU AI Act
The EU AI Act classifies AI systems used by employers to recruit or evaluate candidates as high-risk. A candidate-side tool that organizes your ownsearch is not in that high-risk category. The Act’s general transparencyduty — making clear when you’re interacting with AI and when content is AI-generated — is the part we honor: AI-written output is labeled, and we apply a strict no-fabrication contract so the model only rephrases facts already in your profile.
NYC Local Law 144
Local Law 144 (bias audits for AEDTs) targets employers and employment agenciesusing AI to screen candidates. It does not apply to a job seeker’s personal assistant.
Data protection (GDPR / CCPA)
These principles apply to personal data, and the local-first design satisfies them by construction:
| Principle | How Job Sentinel meets it |
|---|---|
| Data minimization | Only what you enter or fetch is stored — locally. |
| Storage limitation | Everything lives in local files you control; we run no servers holding it. |
| Right to erasure | Every record is deletable in-app; nothing is baked into model weights. |
| No secondary use | No telemetry, no analytics, no third-party sharing. |
| Security | Secrets stay local and unlogged; responses never leak internal detail. |
| Transparency | Generated documents record which model produced them; AI output is labeled. |
Ethical guardrails (self-imposed)
- No fabrication — the tailoring contract forbids inventing employers, titles, dates, metrics, or skills.
- No auto-submit, no CAPTCHA-defeating, no detection evasion — human-in-the-loop for every application.
- Scrapers are opt-in and ToS-disclaimed — legal/free APIs are the default.
This page is informational, not legal advice. For the engineering detail behind these claims, see the Trust & Security page and the project’s compliance docs.