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What Witnal will not do

Witnal does not identify people and never places a call itself. Read the limits on sharing and evidence claims, including why a court decides the outcome.

A high street at night: a homeware shop lit behind its roller grille, one figure walking away, wet pavement.
After hours on a British high street.Photograph: Saul Bandera Brotheridge, Pexels.

Refusals

What Witnal will not do

Witnal records evidence for a person to review. These limits apply throughout the product.

  1. Recognise anyone

    There is no face matching and no watchlist. Witnal keeps no database of people, so there is nothing to match a face against. A face in a recording is ordinary evidence for the police, exactly as it would be from the camera above your till. What detection does is describe, never identify. It finds faces so a person can mark who was uninvolved before a blurred copy is made. It spots threats (a blade, a bat, a sudden move) as cues a person confirms. It counts figures and names ordinary things in shot. It writes a description of the scene and checks whether a clip is usable. Not one of those asks who anybody is.

  2. Call the police for itself

    Witnal recommends the channel and shows its reasoning. While something is happening it can open your phone's dialler on 999, or on a number your shop keeps, after a held press. It never places a call itself and it never rings anyone without you.

  3. Call your evidence tamper-proof

    No file is tamper-proof, so Witnal claims only what it can show: a changed segment stops matching its hash and a touched record carries the extra log line.

  4. Promise an outcome

    Whether evidence is admitted is for a court; so is what it proves. Witnal's work stops at what it can demonstrate: the file and its handling.

  5. Train on your footage

    Your footage trains nothing. Witnal has no training pipeline and its suppliers are under terms that forbid training on what they are sent. Where you ask Witnal to read a sealed still or draft a statement, that material goes to Anthropic, which processes it and returns an answer. Everything else stays here, used to report the crime and for any lawful share you choose to make.

  6. Publish anything

    There is no public feed and nothing here names a suspect. Sharing exists only into lawful schemes the shop already belongs to.

Figure 3. A seal that shows when it has been broken. Nothing here claims it cannot be.sealed, intactany change showshash no longer matches
Figure 3. A seal that shows when it has been broken. Nothing here claims it cannot be.

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