The Protective Legitimacy Score: How to Tell Whether a Trust Claim Is Structural

If a product says it is privacy first, offline first, trauma informed, or resilient, the hard question is not whether the copy sounds good. The hard question is whether the system earns the claim. That is what the Protective Legitimacy Score is for. If you want privacy-first, offline health tech to exist without surveillance funding it: sponsor the build → https://paintracker.ca/sponsor PLS is not a badge, not a certification, and not a compliance shortcut. It is a structural scoring method for