# Data Safety Levels Framework: The foundation of how we look at data in Block

DevFeed: [Data Safety Levels Framework: The foundation of how we look at data in Block](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/data-safety-levels-framework-the-foundation-of-how-we-look-at-data-in-block-29009.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://code.cash.app/dsl-framework>)

Author: John Rogers

Published: 2025-01-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cash App Code Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cash-app-code-blog.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [sensitive data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sensitive-data.md>), [pii](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pii.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [Requirements](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/requirements.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context.md>), [customer-trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customer-trust.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [pii](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pii.md>), [requirements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/requirements.md>), [security-governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security-governance.md>), [sensitive-data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sensitive-data.md>), [standards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/standards.md>)

## AI overview

Block introduces its Data Safety Levels (DSL) Framework, a system for evaluating data sensitivity in context and building scalable, automated data-management policies across Cash App, Square, and TIDAL.

## Source excerpt

Block uses the Data Safety Levels (DSL) Framework to evaluate data sensitivity.