flowchart TD accTitle: Authority, certainty, exposure and personal data accDescr: A document or claim is classified on four scales: authority, by decision maker and state; certainty, by source and result; exposure, by harm from disclosure; and personal data, by data type. Dashed arrows warn that authority does not determine certainty, certainty does not determine exposure and exposure does not replace personal-data classification. D["A document or claim"] -->|decision maker and state| A["Authority: who may approve or change it"] D -->|source and result| C["Certainty: evidence supporting the claim"] D -->|harm from disclosure| E["Exposure: harm from revealing the data"] D -->|personal data type| P["Personal data: classification and treatment"] A -.->|does not determine| C C -.->|does not determine| E E -.->|does not replace| P