Chad Marlow on Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

Chad Marlow

Senior Policy Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, focused on privacy, surveillance, and technology issues.

The second cause of the spike in ALPR use is the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). [...] The AI-empowered mass surveillance of every single American isn’t an ALPR product defect – it is its most prominent and intended feature. [...] The time has come for Congress to ban any law enforcement entity who receives federal funding from using ALPRs. And this prohibition should be without exceptions.

Unverified (Sep 23, 2026)

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Chad Marlow, written testimony, “Always Watching: Flock’s Nationwide AI Surveillance Network,” U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, September 23, 2026.