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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

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Meredith Whittaker
Signal President; AI policy advocate

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We have seen abuse of surveillance powers throughout history, but we have never seen surveillance powers that are as pervasive as what large tech companies have today. [...] Scanning private messages for criminal behaviour could begin to extend into ...
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Max Tegmark
Physicist, AI Researcher

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Fully autonomous weapons systems and Orwellian AI-enabled domestic mass surveillance are affronts to our dignity and liberty. [...] Domestic mass surveillance of US citizens is a red line that should never be crossed. [...] Our safety and basic right...
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Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic

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We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our...
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Mher Hakobyan
Amnesty AI regulation advocacy advisor.

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There is a risk that the European Parliament will end important human-rights protections achieved during the committee vote of 11 May, and open the door to the use of technologies that are in direct conflict with international human rights law. [...]...
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Ayanna Pressley
U.S. Representative, Massachusetts

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By passing this bill, we can prevent government agencies from using this faulty technology [...] our government has no business spying on its civilians.
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Dragoș Tudorache
MEP; EU AI Act co-rapporteur

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We don't want mass surveillance, we don't want social scoring, we don't want predictive policing in the European Union, full stop.
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Ylva Johansson
EU Commissioner for Home Affairs

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there is no room for mass surveillance in our society. Our proposal bans mass social scoring [...]
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European Parliament
EU legislative body

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To respect privacy and human dignity, MEPs ask for a permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces, noting that citizens should only be monitored when suspected of a crime. Parliament calls for the use of private facial r...
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The People’s Plan NYC
NYC multi‑group policy platform

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Problem: Predictive policing is software that is sold to the public as a way for police to “predict crime.” In practice, this software automates racial profiling, harvesting data from sources like the gang databases, which is 99 percent Black and Lat...
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Matt Cagle
ACLU tech and civil liberties attorney

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As Santa Cruz rightly recognized, predictive policing and facial recognition are dangerous, racially biased technologies that should never be used by our government. [...] Lawmakers across the country have a responsibility to step up and dismantle s...
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ARTICLE 19
Free expression and human rights organisation

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States should ban the indiscriminate and untargeted use of biometric technologies to process biometric data in public and publicly-accessible spaces.
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