Cognitive Liberties
Cognitive liberty survives through ordinary decisions about data, identity, access, vendors, appeals, deletion, archives, and measurement. These kits turn worldwide principles into staged work without pretending that one country’s law governs everyone.
A library handles reading records. A school governs learners and research. A newsroom protects sources. A public-interest technology team builds the infrastructure through which people ask and discover. A public institution exercises legal authority. Each setting needs a bounded threat model, explicit evidence, practical remedy, and measurements that do not reconstruct the intellectual lives being protected.
KIT-LIBRARIES-001CompleteA practical governance, procurement, privacy, incident-response, and measurement kit for protecting reading, research, borrowing, reference questions, archives, and digital access without constructing identity-linked histories of lawful thought.
Scope: Worldwide principles with jurisdiction-specific implementation review
94 stable components
Open the complete kitKIT-EDUCATION-001CompleteA 30/90/365-day implementation kit for protecting student, faculty, staff, researcher, and library inquiry across education technology without treating lawful reading, research, disability, disagreement, or confidential help-seeking as evidence of danger or dishonesty.
Scope: Worldwide principles with jurisdiction-specific education, child-rights, labor, accessibility, records, and safeguarding review
104 stable components
Open the complete kitKIT-JOURNALISM-001CompleteA 30/90/365-day implementation kit for protecting sources, research, drafts, multilingual publication, archives, and newsroom continuity without converting controversial reporting, source contact, or political inquiry into a permanent suspicion dossier.
Scope: Worldwide principles with jurisdiction-specific press, source-protection, labor, national-security, privacy, records, and emergency review
104 stable components
Open the complete kitKIT-PUBLIC-INTEREST-TECH-001CompleteA 30/90/365-day implementation kit for building search, AI, moderation, telemetry, identity, and infrastructure systems that prevent concrete abuse without retaining identity-linked histories of lawful queries, code, research, reading, association, or privacy-tool use.
Scope: Worldwide principles with jurisdiction-specific privacy, cybersecurity, consumer, accessibility, employment, platform, AI, export, and records review
111 stable components
Open the complete kitKIT-PUBLIC-INSTITUTIONS-001CompleteA 30/90/365-day implementation kit for exercising public authority without converting lawful thought, reading, searching, association, political belief, religious inquiry, health inquiry, rights research, or use of privacy tools into durable government risk profiles.
Scope: Worldwide principles with jurisdiction-specific constitutional, human-rights, privacy, public-records, administrative-law, procurement, emergency-power, criminal-procedure, benefits, employment, education, and national-security review
126 stable components
Open the complete kitEach kit names systems, actors, data flows, protected activity, credible harms, exclusions, and uncertainty instead of invoking safety in the abstract.
Controls should target concrete harm or capability while preserving lawful inquiry, anonymous or pseudonymous access, correction, deletion, and exit wherever practicable.
Notice, human review, appeal, restoration, deletion, independent oversight, and public aggregate learning make power contestable.
Outcome measures evaluate systems, deletion jobs, response times, contracts, restoration tests, and aggregate categories—not named people’s lawful questions.