KRU

MAKING INVISIBLE DATA JOURNEYS VISIBLE

A PROJECT ABOUT DATA, DIGNITY & CHOICE

Our Stories Leave Data TrailsSome of them we can seeSome of them we cannot

Some begin with the things that make life easier. A usual coffee. A holiday imagined. A story shared. A moment of care. KORU is a place to pause and ask what may travel with them.

Begin with a moment How KORU works

The journeys do not request personal data. They are fictional, source-led ways to notice what may travel with ordinary life.

TWO WAYS INTO KORU

Start with your life, or inspect the systems around it.

KORU connects human-scale data journeys with a source-led public record. Choose the doorway that matters to you—there is no required order and no country score waiting at the end.

Data journeysFollow an ordinary moment and the questions it leaves behind.Public surveillance recordUnderstand the chapter, then inspect sources, scope, safeguards, and gaps.
THE QUESTION

What happens when a private moment begins to travel?

Being connected can bring care, safety, and possibility. It should not mean becoming unknowable to yourself. A record can help in the moment that created it and still deserve clear limits about what happens next.

“This is my life. I may choose to share this part of it. I do not give up the right to understand who carries it forward.”
THE INVISIBLE JOURNEY

A single moment can become a story about you

KORU follows that story in a way that begins with a person, not a technical system.

  1. 01

    A moment

    A journey begins with something ordinary: a coffee, a ticket search, a street, a shop.

  2. 02

    A trace

    That moment can leave information about you, sometimes in ways you can see and sometimes in ways you cannot.

  3. 03

    A companion

    That information can travel to people and systems you did not expect to join the journey.

  4. 04

    A version of you

    It can be organised, linked, analysed, or used to shape a decision about your life.

  5. 05

    Your say

    You deserve to understand the terms, ask what remains yours, and choose who travels alongside you.

THE CONSENT COMPASS

Technology should expand our choices

What is being collected?Why is it needed?Who travels with it?What can be connected?How long does it remain?What can I choose or challenge?
THE KORU JOURNEY

Choose a moment. Follow the question.

Four human doorways into the same larger question. Start anywhere, stay with one moment, or follow the thread through all four.

No wrong order
Reader-led · source-led · yours to leave

01COFFEE · AN ORDINARY MOMENT

A Coffee on the Way to Work

A fictional ordinary journey about payment, joining in, and the small patterns that may form.

Start with a coffee 02HOLIDAY · A POSSIBILITY

Planning a Holiday

A joyful journey about searching, booking, shaping a trip, and noticing what may travel with it.

Plan the trip 03WORK · A FUTURE

A Future You Can See Yourself In

A hopeful journey about applying, being considered, and the record that may form beside the story you share.

Follow the story 04CARE · A TRUSTED MOMENT

A Visit to the Dentist

A fictional routine-care journey about trust, relevant sharing, and the story that remains yours.

Explore when ready

Understanding needs trust. KORU shows its sources, names uncertainty, protects personal boundaries, and welcomes corrections.

How KORU works