Surveillance Accountability Act drafted by Naomi Brockwell and Rep. Thomas Massie

Thomas Massie (R-KY) has drafted a bill with the help of Naomi Brockwell (Ludlow Institute)—and introduced it co-sponsored with Lauren Boebert (R-CO)—which addresses the “third-party loophole” where the US government is able to obtain huge amounts of personal information from data brokers and other data collectors without a warrant or any oversight.

The Surveillance Accountability Act would:

• Require a warrant for targeted investigations
• Require a warrant for all surveillance
• Prohibits warrantless use of facial recognition and license plate readers in public spaces
• Eliminate buying data from data brokers by agencies where a warrant would typically be needed to obtain that data directly
• Allow people to sue the government when their rights here have been violated

More info:

The Surveillance Accountability Act

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Full text:

massie.house.gov

surveillance_accountability_act.pdf

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