Can the U.S. government spy on every single one of us? It’s not supposed to.
It says in the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution it’s not allowed, but there’s a loophole.
Apparently, the U.S. government isn’t allowed to point its own cameras at the American people, but it is allowed to buy data from private companies who just happened to be collecting data on us in order to serve us better ads and use that data to spy on us.
It’s called the data broker loophole. And it’s a problem.
People have been trying to change it for a while, but it actually just got a lot more serious because of AI. Because the truth is, is that even if the US government did buy a whole bunch of data and try to spy on us, it’s impossible.
You can’t pay enough human analysts to go through that huge amount of data. There’s no way to really effectively spy on people. But now with AI, that gets a lot easier.
So kind of for the first time in history, the United States government would be able to spy on every single one of us using the data broker loophole plus AI. So we have to close the data broker loophole.
And, here’s the good news.
That loophole is up for debate right now, today. In Congress.
So what can you do? Well, you have to pressure your congressperson, your representative, in this representative democracy. I put some information in the description of this video.
We’ve got to close the loophole, the data broker loophole, in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
So pressure your congresspeople to make that vote today. You’ll feel better if you do.
Please call your rep at 202-953-1892 and tell them to vote NO on reauthorizing FISA Section 702 unless they close the backdoor search and data broker loopholes. Learn more at https://act.demandprogress.org/call/callpage-702-ai-surveillance/
