Protecting reporters and subjects

Posterity Log is designed to protect reporters, subjects, and bystanders while preserving historical accountability.

Reporters

• Reports are encrypted before storage.
• Uploaded files are encrypted at rest with Fernet encryption.
• File metadata is scrubbed where possible.
• We do not log your IP address.
• We do not intentionally collect any information that might identify a reporter.

Subjects and bystanders

Posterity Log is designed specifically to avoid real-time reputational harm. Submissions are not public accusations. They are unverified reports, and they remain private unless and until circumstances make responsible release to trusted investigators possible.

Anonymous or untested reports cannot, by themselves, establish legal liability. Any legal consequences would depend on independently obtained, admissible evidence gathered through lawful investigative processes (such as interviews, subpoenas, and search warrants).

False or implausible reports do not become smears simply by existing in a sealed archive. Without visibility, credibility, and independent corroboration, they have no present-day effect.

Until public release in 2054, submissions are not public, not searchable, and not visible to employers, media, or the general public.

Limitations

No system can provide absolute anonymity. Avoid submitting information that could directly identify you unless you are prepared for potential future disclosure under the release policy.

Posterity Log is designed to preserve contemporaneous reports about who supported democratic norms, and who supported authoritarianism, during the 47th Trump Presidency.

The archive is intended to be released in two stages:

• First, it may be provided to trusted investigative bodies, when it is safe to do so.
• Later, it is intended to be released publicly as a searchable historical record on 20 January 2054, commemorating the 25th anniversary of Trump departing the Presidency.

Investigator access

The vast majority of submissions will never be relevant to investigators, and never be seen by a human. It is nearly certain that investigators would review the archive with AI, rather than using human review. Where AI detects that a report may be of value, it is still almost certain that it will be treated as an intelligence tip only — a basis for investigators obtaining other evidence through interviews, subpoenas, search warrants, and other means.

Posterity Log will only provide the archive to a trusted investigative body if we receive appropriate reassurances about their use of the information for investigative purposes only.

Why delay public release?

Releasing allegations in real time risks retaliation against reporters and unfair reputational harm to those named in untested claims.

The delayed release helps ensure that:

• reporters are protected from immediate retaliation;
• allegations are not weaponised in contemporary political conflicts;
• future readers can assess reports with historical context and, where available, independent corroboration.

Posterity Log does not determine guilt, innocence, or wrongdoing. It preserves a record.

Any consequences — legal, historical, or moral — depend on what can later be independently established.

Ready to add your piece to the historical record?