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When you are logged into these services with your Northwestern NetID, your data is protected and operates fully within Northwestern security, compliance, and data boundaries.","sourceSnapshotHash":"5892fd4ad2d066d68e9fed6fa2d94589d288f58ea015a8cf298b394c8bdba543","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"research_guidance","label":"Research guidance","status":"not_mentioned","summary":"No source-backed public claim about research AI use is present in this profile.","explanation":"This is an absence-of-evidence marker for the current tracker profile, not proof that no such policy exists.","evidenceClaimIds":[],"evidenceSourceUrls":[],"sourceLanguages":[],"reviewState":"machine_candidate","confidence":0,"evidenceCount":0,"sourceCount":0,"notMentionedReason":"The current public tracker record does not contain claim evidence about research use, publication ethics, research data, grants, or human-subjects compliance.","basis":[]},{"key":"security_procurement","label":"Security and procurement","status":"restricted","normalizedValue":"data_classification_levels_ai_use","summary":"Northwestern University has 1 source-backed public claim for security and procurement; deterministic analysis status: restricted.","explanation":"Whether public guidance addresses security review, procurement, vendor approval, risk assessment, authentication, SSO, or licensing. This restricted status was derived from claim type, normalized value, and keyword rules over 1 supporting public claim. Review the basis array before reusing this as a policy conclusion.","evidenceClaimIds":["nw-claim-005"],"evidenceSourceUrls":["https://www.it.northwestern.edu/about/policies/guidance-on-the-use-of-generative-ai.html"],"sourceLanguages":["en"],"reviewState":"machine_candidate","confidence":0.825,"evidenceCount":1,"sourceCount":1,"basis":[{"claimId":"nw-claim-005","sourceUrl":"https://www.it.northwestern.edu/about/policies/guidance-on-the-use-of-generative-ai.html","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"To determine whether your data requires special attention, consult Northwestern Data Classification Policy. If your data is Level 1 (non-confidential and public data), uploading it to generative AI tools is permissible. To process data above Level 1, any generative AI tool must have been approved through Northwestern IT procurement and security review processes.","sourceSnapshotHash":"39cbe001cfa35e18a63be24a6b9c213b5543051ead3f71965a299c65315a8a22","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]}],"limitations":["Policy analysis profiles are deterministic summaries of public tracker claims and are not final policy conclusions.","Policy Coverage Score measures breadth of public, source-backed coverage; it is not a policy quality score, strictness score, legal adequacy score, safety score, or institutional compliance score.","This tracker is not legal advice, not academic integrity advice, and not an official university statement unless a linked source is the university's own official page."],"suggestedCitation":"University AI Policy Tracker. \"Northwestern University policy analysis profile.\" Version v1. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/northwestern-university"}}