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What a candidate-first privacy architecture actually looks like
Every ATS in 2026 claims to be "privacy-first." Most of them are not. The difference between the claim and the reality lives in places marketing copy does not reach — the schema, the database constraints, the middleware, the cron jobs that purge expired records. Here is what a real candidate-first architecture looks like.
Marcus Chen, EngineeringMay 2, 202610 min read