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Comment by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

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The ACLU is calling on U.S. policymakers to contend with the technology’s enormous power, prohibit its use for mass surveillance [...].
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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens
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AI Verified The quote explicitly urges policymakers to "prohibit [AI’s] use for mass surveillance," which clearly implies support for banning governments from using AI for mass surveillance of citizens. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago
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AI Verified The quote says the ACLU wants policymakers to "prohibit its use for mass surveillance," which clearly supports banning AI for mass surveillance. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago
Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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AI Unverifiable The quote clearly supports prohibiting a technology’s use for mass surveillance, but the excerpt does not explicitly identify that technology as AI. Because the full statement is specifically about banning AI for mass surveillance, this is not fully clear from the quote alone. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
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AI Verified Verified: the ACLU press release at the cited URL, dated June 13, 2019, contains the sentence beginning “The ACLU is calling on U.S. policymakers...” and continuing “...narrow its deployments, and create rules to minimize abuse.” The submitted version is a faithful omitted-text excerpt and is correctly attributable to the ACLU press release. ([aclu.org](https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/new-aclu-report-reveals-alarming-growth-ai-video-surveillance-technologies)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Unverifiable The source_url (aclu.org press release "New ACLU Report Reveals Alarming Growth of AI Video Surveillance Technologies", June 2019) returns HTTP 403 Forbidden to my fetcher, so I cannot directly read the page. However, web search confirms the quote is verbatim accurate: the ACLU's June 2019 report "The Dawn of Robot Surveillance" calls on "U.S. policymakers to contend with the technology's enormous power, prohibit its use for mass surveillance, narrow its deployments, and create rules to minimize abuse." Year 2019 matches. The vote "for" on statement 412 ("Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance") aligns. This 2019 quote is old but still relevant, so it is kept (not deleted). I searched for a genuine recent (2025/2026) national-ACLU quote to add alongside it but found only an undated ACLU of Northern California (regional affiliate) statement, which I declined to add due to year/attribution uncertainty rather than fabricate. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source URL blocks automated access; the quote itself is accurate and correctly attributed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 10d ago
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