Tell Clark: No AI Mass Surveillance!

Digital Fourth and QuitGPT will protest outside the offices of Rep. Katherine Clark in Malden to demand that she oppose extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), specifically Section 702. As long time proponents of ending illegal government surveillance, we support this protest.

FISA 702 permits warrantless government access to people’s communications, including US persons; it permits warrantless acquisition of people’s commercially available information (location data, browsing data, demographic and other sensitive data), and, because AI is new, a law passed in 2008 doesn’t address the problem of AI vastly accelerating the government’s power to ingest data and surface real or hallucinated “insights” on who’s a threat.

In 2013, Rep. Clark explicitly pledged to support “an individualized warrant based on probable cause before the government can search someone’s email.”  She turned her back on that pledge and has whipped Democrats to support expanded warrantless surveillance in 2024.

Come out to help them! The protest will be in front of her district office at 157 Pleasant St #4, Malden, MA 02148. It is a short walk from the Malden Center Orange Line MBTA stop, the Jackson Street Parking Garage and Pleasant Street Parking Lot.

They will have signs if you don’t have your own. Allies have already successfully protested surveillance apologist Jim Himes in Connecticut. If you’d like a flyer to use, it’s here:

You can find more information at Digital 4th’s protest page.