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# GER-439 · Annotation Boundary Breach

> A system captures and logs interaction data as designed, but the handoff to human review or annotation exposes intimate, highly sensitive, or non-anonymized data to a reviewer population without dignity-preserving bounda…

export const Badge = ({children, tone = "default", title}) => {
  const tones = {
    default: "bg-neutral-100 text-neutral-700",
    green: "bg-green-100 text-green-900",
    amber: "bg-amber-100 text-amber-900",
    blue: "bg-blue-50 text-blue-900",
    gray: "bg-neutral-50 text-neutral-600"
  };
  return <span className={`inline-flex items-center px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-mono uppercase tracking-wider rounded ${tones[tone] ?? tones.default}`} title={title}>
      {children}
    </span>;
};

<div className="flex flex-wrap gap-2 mb-8 mt-2">
  <Badge tone="green">Documented</Badge> <Badge>Tier 4xx</Badge> <Badge>Layer L3</Badge> <Badge tone="blue" title="SVRNOS-assigned code in an HTTP-unassigned slot">Namespace-Claim</Badge> <Badge tone="gray">Added v0.2</Badge>
</div>

*Operator / Platform Errors*

## Definition

A system captures and logs interaction data as designed, but the handoff to human review or annotation exposes intimate, highly sensitive, or non-anonymized data to a reviewer population without dignity-preserving boundaries. The governance mechanism itself is the harm.

## Distinct from

* [**GER-329**](/ger/codes/329) — Harm is in the review/annotation handoff → this code. Unconsented ingestion at the data-intake layer → GER-329.

## Documented case

<Card title="Meta AI Smart Glasses Reportedly Exposed Intimate User Imagery and Video to Human Reviewers in Kenya" href="https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1418">
  AIID #1418
</Card>

### Cite

```
SVRNOS. (2026). GER-439: Annotation Boundary Breach. Governance Error Register. https://docs.svrnos.com/ger/codes/439
```