Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

My legislation would protect Americans from unlawful domestic surveillance, ensure that humans in the chain of command exercise responsibility for the use of any lethal technology, and maintain strong ethical protections in the deployment of autonomo...

EFF urges Congress to take two immediate steps: First, enact the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, which passed the House of Representatives in 2024 by a vote of 219–199. This bipartisan bill would prohibit the government from purchasing digital ...

Domestic Surveillance: Prohibits using AI for person-based analysis or tracking of U.S. persons in the United States, with narrow exceptions for cybersecurity and force protection.

EPIC joined more than 40 civil society groups to urge the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to support an amendment that would ban the use of automatic license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling.

Strictly prohibit arbitrary, indiscriminate and mass surveillance used for law enforcement purposes, including biometric and AI applications, such as facial recognition technology, AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through...

Big Tech has built a massive surveillance economy to track, package and sell deeply detailed information about our movements, purchases, preferences, and relationships. Now, out of control federal agencies are buying this data to evade constitutional...

Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general urging Congress to take immediate action to halt federal agencies’ use of commercially purchased data and artificial intelligence (AI) tools that enable mass surveillance of...

Attorney General Raúl Torrez today announced that he is leading a coalition of seventeen state attorneys general urging Congress to take immediate action to halt federal agencies’ use of commercially purchased data and artificial intelligence tools t...

Accessing personal information in this manner without consent or a warrant constitutes alarming overreach by the federal government.

Allowing federal agencies to buy or compile, analyze, and use large profiles of information about Americans without limits, oversight, or accountability undermines the public’s faith in our system of governance and is dangerous for democracy.

This large-scale and invasive AI-enabled surveillance of public spaces is not ‘legal, necessary or proportionate’ to the legitimate aim of providing security.

Mass surveillance is wrong. It enables the potential for unchecked state power and control over individuals, obstructs the separation of powers, and affects all our rights.

No use of OpenAI technology for mass domestic surveillance.

As civil rights advocates, we have and will always stand against mass domestic surveillance and technology weaponized against our communities, especially those historically overpoliced and wrongfully targeted by the government.

Mass surveillance of American citizens is unacceptable.

The military has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement.

Demanding complete obedience from Anthropic to surveil Americans or develop self-firing weapons is a chilling concept far beyond the bounds of what the Defense Department should be doing.

I firmly object to any effort by the Administration to strong-arm AI companies into enabling mass surveillance or developing weapons that operate without meaningful human control. These uses threaten civil liberties and human rights at home and aroun...

But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our fundamental liberties. To the extent that such surveillance is currently legal, this is on...

States must urgently course-correct the current AI trajectory, adopt binding guardrails that draw clear prohibitions around technologies that are incompatible with human rights, and create meaningful mechanisms for public participation so that people...

AI-Powered Surveillance Is Turning the United States into a Digital Police State. Now is the Time to Stop It.

Facial recognition AI is a dangerous technology that is fundamentally incompatible with human rights. Facial recognition creates a broad, warrantless hoard of surveillance data that can instantly be weaponized for intimidation and oppression. It has ...

Passing FISA 702 without strong new guardrails, while doing nothing to stop the government from buying Americans' location data and feeding it into AI systems to conduct unprecedented mass surveillance, would be shocking negligence.

Congress is behind in putting left and right limits on the use of AI, and the first place to start should be at the Pentagon [...] My bill ensures a human is involved when deadly autonomous weapons are fired, AI cannot be used to spy on the American ...

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...

I am not opposed to technology. From my time working in the NHS, I know how transformative advances in technology can be – they can legitimately be lifesaving – but advances in technology cannot be allowed to undermine our rights and our civil libert...

There is a risk the European Parliament may upend considerable human rights protections reached during the committee vote on May 11, opening the door for the use of technologies which are in direct conflict with international human rights law. [...] ...

By passing this bill, we can prevent government agencies from using this faulty technology [...] our government has no business spying on its civilians.

„This proposal would justify the permanent and ubiquitious deployment of face surveillance to look for the thousands of ‚victims‘, ‚threats‘ and suspects of ‚serious crime‘ that are wanted at any time. We need to prevent a China-style dystopian futur...

Clearview sells a facial recognition tool that allows law enforcement and commercial organizations to match photographs of unknown people against a massive databank of 3 billion images, scraped from the Internet. The vast majority of these people hav...

Perhaps the greatest threat posed by technologies that fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence comes from their ability to facilitate the mass surveillance of populations. Advances in machine learning in particular have significantly reduc...

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...

The ACLU is calling on U.S. policymakers to contend with the technology’s enormous power, prohibit its use for mass surveillance [...].

Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, ...

Face recognition is one of the most intrusive of all surveillance technologies. There are already numerous instances of law enforcement using this technology to misidentify and arrest innocent people. Now, immigration officers are harassing people on...

We don't want mass surveillance, we don't want social scoring, we don't want predictive policing in the European Union, full stop.

MEPs worry that the use of AI systems in policing could potentially lead to mass surveillance, breaching key EU principles of proportionality and necessity. [...] They demand a permanent ban on the use of biometric details like gait, fingerprints, DN...

there is no room for mass surveillance in our society. Our proposal bans mass social scoring [...]

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...

Facial recognition surveillance should be banned everywhere, but keeping it out of public housing is an excellent start, [...] This type of invasive surveillance technology is often tested on, and disproportionately used to target poor people and peo...

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 ...

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...

I am very concerned that having police authorities and police officers exercising a pure discretion, without any statutory guidance or code of practice, may well fail that legal test of prescribed by law, because of the uncertainty and the excess of ...

We are talking today about live facial recognition at protests and why the police must not be allowed to use it until Parliament has agreed a clear and democratic code of practice.

It would prohibit live facial recognition when police impose conditions under the Public Order Act unless and until Parliament had approved a new statutory code of practice.

Secondly, this may surprise the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, but I agree that there should be more regulation of its use, and that it should be regulation by Parliament, not by the police.

Prohibited practices shall include AI-enabled social scoring, indiscriminate biometric mass surveillance in public spaces without lawful authorization, and manipulative or deceptive AI systems that exploit vulnerabilities of individuals or groups.

When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...