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Expert opinions on Privacy
Sourced quotes, claims, policy proposals and stances on Privacy from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
1112 sourced quotes · 9 policy proposals and claims
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Ban predictive policing
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For (31)Alternative Federal Budget Working GroupCollective author of the Canadian Alternative Federal Budget’s 2026–27 artificial-intelligence policy chapter.votes For and says:The act will employ the precautionary principle to prohibit the introduction of AI tools into high-risk settings, such as education, health care or the delivery of public services, unless there is clear evidence that they will not cause harm. Where h...
more AI Verified source (Sep 16, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (13)Nigeria Police ForceNational police service of Nigeria, represented by its inspector general at the 2026 UN Chiefs of Police Summit.votes Against and says:Artificial intelligence, digital forensics, and geospatial intelligence are transforming how we anticipate threats and conduct investigations.
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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
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For (96)New York City Mayor's OfficeOfficial communications office of the Mayor of New York City.votes For and says:DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (3)Sherry TurkleMIT professor and founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self; author on technology and human relationships.abstains and says:Sweeping bans of anything are hard to enact and enforce, but the risks of generative AI are too great to dismiss bold measures as unfeasible. [...] In the absence of a wholesale ban on all interactions between juveniles and relational AI, a default s...
more AI Verified source (Sep 11, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (35)Andy KimU.S. Senator (D-NJ)votes Against and says:We all just want peace of mind that our kids will be okay growing up in this era of algorithms and AI. That’s why we need guardrails in place to keep up with ever-evolving technology like chatbots and make sure our kids’ safety, mental health, and we...
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[🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors
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For (130)Gavin NewsomGovernor of Californiavotes For and says:BREAKING: I just signed the strongest kid safety laws for AI chatbots and social media in America. California is banning addictive social media features for kids, cracking down on dangerous AI chatbots, and strengthening privacy protections for ALL k...
more AI Verified source (Sep 11, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Peter OrmerodAssociate professor of law at Villanova University, writing on privacy and technology policy.abstains and says:Age verification can be done well in a privacy-protective way, but it is not easy.
Unverifiable source (Aug 8, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (4)Alex AmbrosePolicy analyst at ITIFvotes Against and says:Many bills to protect children from chatbots harms err by simply transplanting ineffective social media approaches such as age verification, content restrictions, and blanket bans. Policymakers should avoid moral panic about chatbots and AI and inste...
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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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For (111)James TalaricoTexas state representative (D-Austin)votes For and says:DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Jasleen ChaggarSenior Legal and Policy Officer at Big Brother Watch, a civil-liberties campaign group.abstains and says:This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...
more Unverifiable source (Aug 7, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)MoMo ZhouVice President of Communications at Flock Safety.votes Against and says:We ask them to work with the communities using this technology to decide what rules should govern it and not to spread misinformation or ban a critical public safety tool outright that is helping to make communities safer.
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For (47)Daniel KokotajloAI Futures Project foundervotes For and says:
Instead we want to be in a situation where if both sides want a deal, then they can prove to each other that they’re complying with the deal. You want to be in a situation where the Chinese government at least knows where all the Chinese chips are, a...
more AI Verified source (Aug 27, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)John NeufferPresident and CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Associationvotes Against and says:SIA members are fully committed to complying with export controls, and we strongly oppose the illicit diversion and misuse of our chip technologies. While we understand policymakers’ interest in addressing this issue, we cannot support blanket mandat...
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For (76)Bernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes For and says:
We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.
AI Verified source (Aug 26, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (5)Lord Clement-JonesTim Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones CBE; Liberal Democrat peer; UK House of Lords AI policy expertabstains and says:The use of live facial recognition in our public spaces is an extraordinary expansion of state power that currently exists in a legal vacuum. We are not Luddites on these Benches; we recognise the utility of technology, but we must ensure that live f...
more AI Verified source (Mar 9, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Alistair EnserExecutive at Reliance High-Tech writing on facial-recognition policy and video analytics.votes Against and says:I have grave concerns that banning technology until it is legislated will choke innovation, it will drive genuine use cases away, and as technology is always developing, are we not in danger of ‘tomorrow never comes’ when it comes to legislation keep...
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For (107)votes For and says:
We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.
AI Verified source (Aug 12, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (17)Information Technology and Innovation FoundationUS innovation policy think tankvotes Against and says:Restricting access to training data, whether through mandatory compensation, expanded opt-out rights, or onerous compliance requirements, can have the effect of restricting AI development itself.
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Replace cookie banners with automated privacy signals from your browser or device that websites and apps must obey
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For (226)ZoomVideo communications and collaboration technology company.votes For and says:Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Texas may also set the Global Privacy Control (GPC) to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information for targeted advertising for each participati...
more AI Verified source (Jul 27, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Silvan JongeriusFounder of the Berlin privacy consultancy TechGDPR and former CTO.abstains and says:The standards for how this works haven't been written yet. And that implementation detail will determine whether this actually works for people, or just replaces one broken system with another that serves the same advertising interests.
AI Verified source (Feb 19, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (23)Diana NasuleaRomanian economist and policy analyst; author of a 2026 briefing on browser-level consent.votes Against and says:Rather than legislating a default of non-consent, the EU should standardise consent interfaces, broaden exemptions for low-risk processing, and ensure that browser-level consent mechanisms allow users to express meaningful preferences without distort...
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For (160)Government of AustraliaGovernment of Australia speaking through its delegate at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.votes For and says:
These workstreams build on existing Government actions including already legislated criminal offences to ban the sharing of non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit material, and work to ban nudify apps.
AI Verified source (Jul 20, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)John ColemanFIRE legislative counsel on AI speechvotes Against and says:A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...
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