AUTHORITARIAN INTERFERENCE TRACKER

Terms of Use

Effective: 27 May 2026 · Last reviewed: 16 June 2026

These terms govern your access to and reuse of the Authoritarian Interference Tracker (AIT) catalog, including the public website and any structured data it makes available. The catalog is published by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) for research, journalism, education, and civic-society analysis.

1. What the catalog is

The AIT is a secondary-source catalog: each entry summarises and points back to primary reporting by government bodies, security firms, research institutes, and journalism. Entries describe allegations of unlawful state-sponsored conduct attributed by public reporting. Nothing in the catalog is a finding of guilt, a verdict, or a determination by ISD beyond a curatorial editorial judgement.

2. Permitted uses

You may, subject to the conditions below:

• Read, search, and link to the public catalog.
• Quote, summarise, and cite individual entries for research, journalism, education, and policy analysis, with appropriate attribution.
• Reproduce limited extracts of catalog metadata in derivative analyses, with attribution and a link back to the source entry on this site.

3. Attribution

When you cite or reproduce material from the AIT, please credit the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and link to the relevant entry or to the catalog homepage. The Methodology page includes a suggested citation format.

4. Conditions and prohibitions

The following uses are not permitted:

• Presenting allegations recorded in the catalog as proven facts, or stripping the attribution and sourcing from individual entries when reusing them.
• Using catalog content to harass, dox, threaten, defame, or otherwise target named individuals, including individuals named in the underlying public reporting. The catalog records allegations from public reporting; it is not a database of leads for retaliatory action.
• Using the catalog or its data to facilitate unlawful conduct, including unlawful intelligence collection, surveillance, or transnational repression.
• Bulk re-publication of the dataset (full or substantial copies) as a standalone product without prior written permission from ISD.
• Bulk automated retrieval that imposes a disproportionate load on the site infrastructure. If you need bulk access for legitimate research, contact us and we will arrange it.
• Removing, obscuring, or misrepresenting the attribution, confidence assessment, or source links attached to individual entries.

5. Rights in source material

The source articles and reports linked from each catalog entry are the work of their respective publishers and remain subject to those publishers' rights and licences. Linking to a source from a catalog entry does not transfer or relicense any rights in that source. Quoting, copying, or redistributing those underlying sources is governed by the publishers' own terms and applicable law.

ISD's processing of source articles is carried out for research and journalistic purposes. We retain only the minimum text necessary to support the catalog's editorial and research function, link back to each publisher's original article rather than republishing it in full, and treat takedown requests from rights-holders on the basis described in section 7. The catalog's metadata layer (titles, summaries, structured fields, taxonomy labels, entity extractions) is an original work created by ISD; see section 6.

6. Catalog metadata

The structured metadata that ISD adds in compiling the catalog (titles, summaries, structured fields, taxonomy labels, entity extractions) is made available for non-commercial reuse under the conditions above. ISD reserves all other rights.

7. Editorial integrity and corrections

Catalog entries pass through two-stage human editorial review before publication, as described in the Methodology. We may revise or retract entries when new evidence emerges, when an entry is mischaracterised, or in response to a substantiated correction request. Corrections may be visible in the entry's audit history; retracted entries will not be publicly accessible. If you believe an entry should be corrected or retracted, email [email protected].

8. No warranty

The catalog is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. ISD makes no warranty, express or implied, that the catalog is complete, accurate, current, fit for any particular purpose, or available without interruption. Public-figure attribution at the level recorded here reflects the underlying reporting at the time of publication and may be superseded by later findings.

9. Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, ISD will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the catalog. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

10. Privacy

Our processing of personal data in connection with the catalog is described in the Privacy & Data Notice, which forms part of these terms.

11. Changes

We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last reviewed” date at the top of this page. Continued use of the catalog after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

12. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected].