Known limitations

These are the dataset's own recorded limitations. They are published in full rather than summarized, because a summary is where the inconvenient ones go missing.

• This is a public-source audit, not discovery or a subscription-court-database export. Sealed warrants, non-public investigative files and inaccessible national dockets remain outside scope.
• The named-person table is not a roster of every person arrested in aggregate multinational sweeps. It contains publicly identified natural persons and deliberately omits anonymous/handle-only placeholders.
• Ten legacy source stubs remain without an exact recovered URL. Each is tagged unresolved and points to a verified replacement where one exists.
• Some current statuses are the latest located official status, not a certification that no later sealed or local-court event occurred.
• For historical national-language sources, the official release may document an aggregate event without publishing every person, charge or domestic case number.
• PowerOFF April 2026 U.S. eight-domain reporting overlaps with the 53-domain global wave and is modeled as an incident_component to avoid double counting.
• The 2019 Islamic State content-referral action was reclassified as excluded because the located official source does not establish government infrastructure seizure/control.