What Cunicula is

Privacy claims are worthless without records. Cunicula links claims to the documents, dates, operator records, and reported events a reader can inspect.

The job

Cunicula is a public index of claims about privacy services, identity requirements, ownership, jurisdiction, policy changes, and recorded incidents. It collects the source bundle behind each claim so a reader can see what is documented, when it was checked, and where the record is incomplete.

A provider statement is still a claim. A registry filing, policy document, audit report, court record, or reproducible technical finding gives that claim a record. Cunicula keeps those different kinds of evidence visible instead of turning them into one verdict.

What Cunicula is not

Not a certification body

Cunicula does not certify services or issue seals of approval. A listing, score, or source-checked label must not be represented as certification.

Not an audit

Reading policies, registries, technical reports, and incident records is not an independent audit of a service's code, infrastructure, finances, or day-to-day conduct. When a third-party audit exists, Cunicula records who performed it and links the report; it does not adopt the auditor's role.

Not a recommendation engine

Cunicula does not decide which service is right for a reader. Scores expose recorded properties and evidence coverage; they do not account for an individual threat model, jurisdiction, budget, or tolerance for failure. A listing is not an endorsement, and a higher score is not a recommendation.

How to use a record

Start with the sources and review dates. Treat unknown, partial, reported, and press-only labels as limits, not as gaps to fill with marketing. Use the coverage map to see where Cunicula stops, the methodology to inspect the arithmetic, and the corrections log to see what changed.

Related records

• Coverage map: what is covered, what is partial, and where another source is better.
• Methodology: how the published fields, scores, and evidence labels are built.
• Corrections: the correction and retraction policy and its public log.
• Funding and disclosure: how funding and commercial relationships are handled.