DON’T LET THE GOVERNMENT SPY ON AMERICANS WITHOUT A WARRANT!

This week, Congress will vote on whether to renew a law that allows the government to conduct sweeping surveillance of Americans without a warrant through loopholes Congress MUST close.

It’s called Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — and if it’s renewed, the Trump administration and federal agencies could continue collecting and searching our communications and personal data for another five years. That data is already being used to surveil communities and activists, and rapid advances in AI could make it even more dangerous.

Our elected lawmakers cannot hand over even more unchecked power. Our right to privacy is at risk, and they have the power to protect us!

Add your name to urge Congress to vote NO on allowing mass surveillance.

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Dear lawmaker,

I’m writing to you as a supporter of human rights and alongside Amnesty International USA with an urgent plea to vote NO on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

I am incredibly concerned that Congress will reauthorize these controversial spying powers without first closing the data broker loophole, which facilitates mass surveillance and circumvents the FISA reforms that Congress enacted in 2015 to prohibit domestic bulk data collection. Closing this loophole would ensure government agencies obtain judicial approval before buying information about people in the U.S. from data brokers if it would otherwise require a court order to seize. This would establish a critical legal process to protect privacy before such warrantlessly acquired information is fed into artificial intelligence surveillance systems, and help avert looming and unprecedented threats to Americans’ rights.

This March, the New York Times reported that the Department of Defense is requiring AI companies to enable mass domestic surveillance through the collection and analysis of “commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data.” The DoD appears to have already secured one such agreement that could permit any use the government deems lawful with one of the largest artificial intelligence companies in the world.

FISA's sunsets were designed to prompt Congress to consider privacy protections for people in the U.S. in particular against mass, warrantless surveillance. The question of whether and how pre-existing and future spying practices interrelate with artificial intelligence is a monumental policy decision with profound consequences for Americans’ civil liberties and human rights.

As your constituent, I implore you to ensure any FISA reauthorization closes the so-called data broker loophole and stops the government from using taxpayer dollars to circumvent core Fourth Amendment rights. If government agencies are allowed to use this loophole to supercharge AI-powered surveillance of U.S. citizens, this already-serious issue could prove catastrophic to the right to privacy in the United States.

Data brokers sell private information about all Americans, often surreptitiously obtaining that data from our phones and other devices. According to one YouGov poll, 80% of Americans think the government should “obtain warrants before purchasing location information, internet records, and other sensitive data about people in the U.S. from data brokers.” Yet it seems the DoD is a mere contract dispute away from using AI to make government agencies’ purchases of such surveillance exponentially more invasive.

The law simply has not kept pace with the rapidly growing capabilities of AI. We should all share the fear that powerful AI makes it possible to conduct invasive surveillance at an unprecedented scale, and that these tools pose serious risks to our rights. Congress must ensure that legal safeguards to prevent the abuse of AI surveillance technology are in place as soon as possible.

This reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA offers the best opportunity for this Congress to protect Americans’ privacy.

Please: ensure that any FISA reauthorization requires government agencies to obtain court orders before buying sensitive information about people in the United States from data brokers. Congress must stop the unprecedented warrantless mass surveillance that is sweeping up the private information of communities across the U.S. Rapid advances in AI will only supercharge government agencies’ ability to wrongfully wield this power against Americans.

Sincerely,

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