Ashley Gorski on Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

Ashley Gorski

Senior staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project.

Congress can start by passing the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a commonsense reform bill that bans the government from buying data that it would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Congress must also impose basic guardrails on the government’s use of novel AI tools: it must protect against warrantless invasions of our privacy and intrusions on our freedoms of speech and association, both online and off.

AI Verified (Mar 9, 2026)

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Congress can start by passing the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a commonsense reform bill that bans the government from buying data that it would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Congress must also impose basic guardrails on the government’s use of novel AI tools: it must protect against warrantless invasions of our privacy and intrusions on our freedoms of speech and association, both online and off.