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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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Chloé BerthélémySenior Policy Advisor at European Digital Rights (EDRi), focusing on digital rights and biometric surveillance.votes For and says:
In human rights terms, there is no salient difference between real-time and post-remote biometric identification. Threats posed to rights and freedoms are not reduced just because authorities or companies have extra time to review footage.
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Matt MahmoudiAmnesty AI and human rights researchervotes For and says:
Failing to enact a total ban on public biometric surveillance creates broad national security exemptions that jeopardize fundamental rights.
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Graciela GuzmánIllinois State Senator.votes For and says:
Congress must stop that cycle: abolish DHS, end federal data purchases that sidestep constitutional protections, hold corporations accountable, and protect states defending our people.
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Bruce NestorAttorney based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.votes For and says:
The growth in surveillance technology and the use of artificial intelligence to augment that physical force pose a direct threat to our remaining democratic institutions and freedoms and require immediate action by Congress before the forces of repre...
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Jesse FranzblauAssociate Director of Policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center.votes For and says:
Lawmakers must also act at the federal level, including by cutting funds for ICE or Border Patrol, and redirecting funds away from surveillance-related contracts and towards communities.
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Tania UnzuetaPolitical Director and co-founder of Mijente.votes For and says:
Nearly ten years later, that same surveillance infrastructure is generating even greater profits. Palantir alone has received more than $1.8 billion in federal contracts since 2025, including a $1 billion DHS agreement that allows ICE and CBP to buy ...
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Paromita ShahExecutive Director of Just Futures Law.votes For and says:
ICE and CBP are not only immigration policing agencies; they are also central pillars of the new security state with a rapidly expanding surveillance apparatus powered by AI-driven technologies, private contractors, and massive data-sharing systems.
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Delia C. RamirezU.S. Representative for Illinois's 3rd congressional district.votes For and says:
As a Chicagoan, I know Black and Brown communities are no strangers to overpolicing, surveillance, and criminalization. And I have had a front row seat as the Trump administration has aggressively accelerated the use of technology and artificial inte...
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Henry C. "Hank" Johnson Jr.U.S. Representative from Georgia; member of the House Judiciary Committee.votes For and says:
Americans cannot afford gas, groceries, or healthcare, yet the Trump Administration and MAGA Republicans are pouring money into funding these mass surveillance tools used by ICE agents operating with impunity. It has got to stop. We must fight back.
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Alex TurnerAI safety researcher and former Google DeepMind research scientist.votes For and says:
I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silenc...
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Bruce SchneierSecurity technologist and authorvotes For and says:
Now that we recognize the danger of AI-enhanced mass surveillance, we can make the policy choices not to implement it.
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Franco Giandana Di GenaPolicy analyst at Access Now.votes For and says:
AI tools are supercharging surveillance and suppression of protesters, journalists, human rights defenders, and other communities at risk. We therefore echo calls for the adoption of human rights-centered binding legal standards and global governance...
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Zachary LampellSenior Legal Advisor and Coordinator of the Digital Rights Program at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law.votes For and says:
We can and should implement red lines where AI cannot comply with human rights.
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International Center for Not-for-Profit LawInternational legal organization working on civil society, digital rights, and the rule of law.votes For and says:
We can and should implement red lines where AI cannot comply with human rights.
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Daniela AmodeiPresident and co-founder of Anthropic.votes For and says:
The reason we chose fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance as the areas where we simply can't say yes is because the technology is so new that we do not believe the laws may be perfectly designed to account for how the technology cou...
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Zach LampellSenior Legal Advisor and Coordinator for Digital Programs at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law.votes For and says:
Governments should adopt clear prohibitions or moratoria on AI systems and uses that pose unacceptable risks to human rights.
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Council of the European UnionEU Council of governmentsvotes For and says:
AI systems that pose a threat to people’s safety, rights or livelihoods are banned from use in the EU. The use of real-time remote biometric identification systems such as facial recognition by law enforcement authorities in public spaces is also pro...
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The one by my house, it hits me every time I go on the turnpike…Daily commuters, their whole habits are there. These are pinging tens of thousands of license plates every day here in our state. They're not just going after criminals. They're pinging ...
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Béatrice Fresko-RolfoMember of Monaco’s National Council and delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.votes For and says:
In the wrong hands, [AI] becomes a tool for mass surveillance, predictive policing, risk rating, social scoring, and even the censorship of political opinions. AI, however, does not confine itself to merely watching; it is therefore up to us to set l...
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Allie MaloneyPolicy Analyst at Americans for Responsible Innovation; former Scoville Peace Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.votes For and says:
Whether through the GSRA or another vehicle, Congress must work together to pair a reauthorization of the surveillance authority with warrant requirements.
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Patrick CaseyIrish parliamentarian; member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.votes For and says:
If we fail to act with urgency, we risk allowing our information space to be shaped not by democratic deliberation, but by opaque algorithms, foreign interference, and unaccountable private actors. The report makes this clear: AI systems depend on ma...
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ARTICLE 19Free expression and human rights organisationvotes For and says:
We will champion the report and call for governments and other stakeholders to implement its recommendations, including the need to strictly prohibit the use and transfer of surveillance technologies that fail to comply with international human right...
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Human Rights WatchGlobal human rights advocacy organizationvotes For and says:
The risk of privacy violations is notable, as AI systems deployed in military use cases are often “dual use” and developed and deployed in non-military settings where widespread and indiscriminate data collection may constitute mass surveillance, whi...
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Office of Senator Chris CoonsOfficial office of U.S. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware.votes For and says:
The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act would require AI-enabled autonomous systems to be deployed in a way that ensures human operators are able to control, monitor, detect unintended behavior, and manually disengage or deactivate any de...
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Donald TrumpPresident of the United Statesvotes For and says:
American AI technologies shall neither be developed nor used by the national security enterprise to censor free speech, embed ideological bias, or conduct unauthorized or unlawful surveillance activities.
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Matthew GuarigliaSenior Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in surveillance, privacy, and civil liberties.votes For and says:
EFF opposes the use of generative AI for the purposes of mass government surveillance because that use supercharges unconstitutional violations of civil liberties and because government secrecy prevents the public and lawmakers from knowing when gene...
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Matthew GuarigliaEFF activism directorvotes For and says:
EFF opposes the use of generative AI for the purposes of mass government surveillance because that use supercharges unconstitutional violations of civil liberties and because government secrecy prevents the public and lawmakers from knowing when gene...
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Kirsten GillibrandU.S. Senator from New York; member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committeesvotes For and says:
The most critical decisions affecting our national security and the lives of our service members must always be made by human beings, not unaccountable machines. Right now, the Pentagon is moving toward deploying incredibly powerful AI technology wit...
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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of AmericaU.S. independent labor union representing workers across multiple industries.votes For and says:
We therefore call for public and worker control of Artificial Intelligence technologies, and for the end of their use for mass surveillance and as weapons of war, in order to ensure that AI tools are used for the benefit of working people and not to ...
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Óscar López ÁguedaSpanish digital transformation minister.votes For and says:
The European AI Regulation, promoted by the Spanish presidency, established eight prohibitions related to subliminal techniques, vulnerability exploitation, biometric classification, social scoring, predictive surveillance, emotion recognition, face ...
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