The Mission
About
No Reasonable Expectation is an independent media project covering the collision of technology, AI, and the surveillance state — always through a civil rights lens.
Why the name
“No reasonable expectation of privacy” is the legal test courts use to decide when the government can watch, track, and record you without a warrant. Every year, new technology shrinks what counts as “reasonable” — until the protections of the Fourth Amendment quietly erode in places most people never see. We took the name as a warning, and as a challenge.
What we do
We make investigations and explainers about the tools of modern surveillance — facial recognition, automated license plate readers, cell-site simulators, data brokers, and the AI systems that tie them together — and we connect each one back to the constitutional rights it touches. Then we go a step further: we show people what they can actually do about it.
The reporting lives on YouTube. This site is the archive, the briefing room, and the field kit.
What we believe
- Privacy is a precondition for free speech, free assembly, and dissent — not a luxury.
- Surveillance power should be transparent, accountable, and subject to the Constitution.
- Ordinary people can push back — in court, in city councils, and on their own devices.