Tech · AI · Surveillance · Civil Rights
They say you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
No Reasonable Expectation reports on the technology watching you, and arms you with the rights, tools, and tactics to watch back.
What we cover
The Surveillance Stack
Facial recognition, ALPRs, Stingrays, data brokers, and the AI quietly scoring you. We break down how the tech actually works.
Your Constitutional Rights
What the Fourth Amendment still protects, where the courts have carved it away, and the doctrine of "reasonable expectation" itself.
How to Fight Back
Practical countermeasures, records requests, legislation that works, and the organizations winning these fights in court.
In writing
From the Dispatch
You Can't Defend Your Rights One at a Time
Your rights don't work alone. They are an interlocking system that cover each other's flank. The surveillance machine knows it, and that's why it comes for them one at a time.
Read the dispatch →What 'Reasonable' Used to Mean
The Fourth Amendment protects you only where you have a 'reasonable expectation of privacy.' That test was meant to expand your rights. Increasingly, it does the opposite.
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