Terms of Use

This is not legal advice

Unsurveilled publishes constitutional analysis, policy argument, and research about government surveillance. None of it is legal advice, and reading this site does not create an attorney-client relationship with anyone. Surveillance law varies by jurisdiction and changes over time. If you need advice about your own situation — including responding to a records request, a subpoena, or a law-enforcement contact — consult a licensed attorney in your state.

Accuracy, sourcing, and corrections

We work hard to source every factual claim, and we publish a standing citation library so our claims can be checked rather than trusted. We still expect to make mistakes.

When we do, we correct them publicly: the correction is logged and dated on the affected research post, and we do not silently edit away errors. If you find something wrong, tell us. Our full standard is described on the About page.

Research on this site describes the record as of its publication or last-updated date. Contracts get renewed, policies get rewritten, and case law moves. Check the dates.

Using and reusing our work

Unsurveilled exists so that residents of other communities do not have to start from scratch. Accordingly, unless a specific page says otherwise, the original written content of this site is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, adapt, and republish it — including for your own local campaign — as long as you give credit to Unsurveilled and indicate whether you made changes.

Two limits on that grant:

• The Unsurveilled name and logo are not covered. The license covers our text, not our identity. Please do not use the Unsurveilled name, wordmark, or mark in a way that suggests we produced, endorsed, or reviewed your material when we did not.
• “DeFlock” is not ours. DeFlock is a separate, pre-existing project run by other people. We claim no rights in that name and no affiliation with it. Where we use the word, we are describing shared opposition to warrantless ALPR surveillance — not asserting ownership of anyone else’s work.
• Third-party material is not ours to license. Quoted passages, government records, and other organizations’ work remain subject to their own terms.

If you adapt our material and change its meaning, please do not attribute the changed version to us as though it were our position.

Trademarks and third parties

Company, product, and agency names on this site — including Flock Safety and other automated license plate reader vendors — are the trademarks of their respective owners. We refer to them descriptively, to identify the systems and companies we are discussing. No affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement is claimed or implied, in either direction.

As stated on the Warrant Required campaign page, our objection is to warrantless networked ALPR surveillance regardless of which company operates it. Naming a vendor is not a claim about that vendor beyond what our sources support.

Links to other sites

We link to court decisions, statutes, public records, news reports, and other organizations’ research. Those sites are not under our control. A link is a citation, not an endorsement of everything at the destination, and we are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or privacy practices.

Acceptable use

Please do not:

• Use the contact form to send unlawful, threatening, or harassing material, or bulk unsolicited commercial messages;
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to this site, its server, or any connected system;
• Interfere with the site’s availability for others, including by automated flooding;
• Misrepresent yourself as speaking for Unsurveilled.

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in this site, we would genuinely like to know — please report it to hello@unsurveilled.org rather than disclosing it publicly first, and we will work with you in good faith.

No warranty

This site and everything on it is provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or continuously available.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Unsurveilled and its volunteers and contributors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising out of your use of, or inability to use, this site or its content — including any action you take in reliance on material published here. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the project develops — in particular when Unsurveilled establishes a formal legal structure. The effective date below will change when they do.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@unsurveilled.org or the contact page.

Effective date

Effective August 10, 2026. This is the first version of these terms.