Know
See what is collected, observed, purchased, inferred, generated, shared, and retained about you.
THE DATA SOVEREIGNTY DECLARATION
Your life is not an intelligence product.
Data sovereignty means people retain meaningful authority over information made from their bodies, behavior, relationships, movement, communication, attention, labor, and private lives.
We will not trade self-government for the convenience of being perfectly observed.
Data is not merely a corporate asset or a government record. At sufficient scale, it becomes the power to predict, sort, exclude, persuade, investigate, imitate, and govern. KHH therefore treats personal data as an extension of the person—not abandoned property available to whoever can capture it.
This is an anti-surveillance position, not an anti-technology position. Technology should help a person remember, communicate, heal, learn, travel, create, and participate. It should not quietly convert ordinary life into a dossier that can be searched forever.
Control
Authorize specific uses without granting an unlimited license to future uses, affiliates, contractors, or governments.
Correct
Challenge false, stale, decontextualized, or machine-inferred claims before they affect opportunity, liberty, access, or reputation.
Move
Export useful data in an understandable, interoperable form without losing access or being punished for leaving.
Delete
Remove original records and derived profiles when the declared purpose ends, subject only to narrow and visible legal duties.
Withhold
Use essential services without surrendering unrelated data, continuous location, or a reusable biometric identity.
Be unobserved
Speak, read, gather, worship, organize, dissent, recover, and change without becoming a permanent behavioral record.
Audit power
See which human or system accessed personal data, why, under whose authority, for how long, and with what result.
TARGETED, NOT TOTAL
Investigate conduct. Do not pre-investigate citizenship.
KHH accepts that a free society may investigate specific wrongdoing through lawful, proportionate, reviewable means. We reject the inversion in which everyone is continuously captured and the government decides later whom to examine. A warrant cannot be replaced by a database subscription, a public-camera dragnet, or an AI-generated suspicion score.
Every exceptional access should identify the responsible human, legal basis, data sought, people affected, duration, independent reviewer, deletion date, and route for later challenge.
The Institute agrees—until the exception
The Institute Foundation minimizes collection, separates identity from service use, encrypts records, publishes access logs, and rejects behavioral advertising. KHH values those protections. We remain less willing to trust broad security exceptions, centralized identity, or permanent observability—even when the institution making the promise appears benevolent.
That disagreement is deliberate. A right that exists only while good people administer the system is not yet a durable right.
Read the fourteen-clause covenant Understand our disagreement with The Institute