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. [...] Because ALPR systems are most commonly sold to local police departments, a nationwide ALPR surveillance network crept up on us slowly and silently, until it was too big not to notice. [...] The time has come for Congress to prohibit any law enforcement entity who receives federal funding from using ALPRs without exception.

Unverified (Sep 23, 2026)

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