When elected, I will champion a national privacy rights bill that will put an end to the sale and sharing of your personal information without your permission. Although the government must get a warrant to obtain your current location from your cell phone provider, they are bypassing that requirement by purchasing this information from data brokers.
Those data brokers get the information from the web sites you visit, the apps that you use on your phone, and your social media posts and comments. The United States currently lacks any laws that restrict how that information is used, allowing companies like Palantir to pull all of this data together to create dossiers on us.
Private companies are deploying a mass surveillance system funded by taxpayers and deployed by law enforcement agencies around the country. Tens of thousands of license plate readers mounted on police vehicles, in public rights-of-way and at private businesses track our cars as we drive around America recording our every movement. Residents in cities across the US have been fighting back, cancelling contracts with these private surveillance companies.
The photo you see here shows my daughters and I getting out of our car at our house more than a decade ago. It was taken by an LPR attached to a police car. Photos like this are taken every day of our homes, streets and even hospitals and stored in databases available to multiple agencies, including ICE.
I will fight to expose and regulate mass surveillance, so all Americans can enjoy the right to privacy.
Some news articles referencing my anti-surveillance work
- The hidden surveillance network sending Californians’ license plates to Border Patrol, CalMatters 2026
- Oakland Privacy and the People of Vallejo Prevail in the Fight For Surveillance Accountability, EFF 2021
- Santa Clara County’s Data-Mining Deal with Palantir Draws Scrutiny From Privacy Advocates, sanjoseinside 2018
- Highland Hospital Surveillance Stirs Concerns, East Bay Express 2017
- Fremont Police opts into similar cell site simulator contract as Oakland, Mudrock 2017
- How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut, Forbes 2013
- License-plate readers let police collect millions of records on drivers, Center for Investigative Reporting 2013
- New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plates, WSJ 2012
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