CIVIC ACTION CENTER
Turn Privacy Rights Into Political Pressure.
Mass surveillance is not inevitable. It is built through policy choices, public contracts, private infrastructure, weak enforcement, and legal loopholes.
Use the Civic Action Center to contact representatives, share your story, and demand laws that protect people from AI extraction, data brokers, digital ID mandates, and warrantless access to personal data.
FOUR DEMANDs
NO MORE DATA CENTERS
Stop the expansion of hyperscale AI and surveillance infrastructure that consumes massive amounts of electricity, water, land, and public money.
No new data centers without strict limits, full transparency, community approval, and operators paying their full costs.
NO DIGITAL ID MANDATES
No one should be forced to use a digital ID, biometric credential, centralized identity system, or private identity provider to access public services, employment, housing, banking, healthcare, or daily life.
NO TRAINING WITHOUT CONSENT
Companies must not use people’s personal data, communications, creative work, images, or online activity to train AI systems without clear and informed consent.
NO WARRANT, NO DATA
Police, intelligence agencies, immigration authorities, and other government bodies must obtain judicial authorization before accessing or purchasing personal data from companies, platforms, or data brokers.
HOW TO TAKE ACTION
CHOOSE A DEMAND
Pick the issue you care about most.
FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE
Contact your MP, representative, councillor, attorney general, privacy commissioner, or relevant regulator.
SEND THE MESSAGE
Use the email template, call script, or meeting request.
SHARE YOUR STORY
Explain how surveillance, AI extraction, forced identity systems, or infrastructure expansion affects you or your community.
DEMAND ENFORCEMENT
Ask for laws, investigations, contract reviews, public transparency, and real penalties.
Email Template
Subject: No New Data Centers Without Transparency, Limits, and Community Approval Hello [REPRESENTATIVE NAME], I’m writing as a constituent because I’m concerned about the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers used for AI, cloud computing, and surveillance infrastructure. These facilities consume massive amounts of electricity, water, land, and public resources. Communities should not be forced to absorb the environmental, infrastructure, and financial costs while private companies profit. I’m asking you to support policies that require: No new data centers without community approval. Full public disclosure of electricity, water, land, emissions, and public subsidy impacts. No public subsidies for hyperscale AI or surveillance infrastructure. Mandatory environmental and infrastructure impact assessments. Operators to pay the full cost of grid upgrades, water use, and local infrastructure strain. Public transparency around which companies and government agencies use these facilities. Data centers are not neutral infrastructure. They power AI systems, data extraction, cloud surveillance, military systems, and corporate control over public resources. Please let me know what action your office is taking to limit unchecked data center expansion and protect communities. Thank you, [NAME] [CITY / POSTAL CODE]
Call Script
Hi, my name is [NAME], and I live in [CITY / POSTAL CODE]. I’m calling because I’m concerned about the expansion of hyperscale data centers used for AI and surveillance infrastructure. These facilities use massive amounts of electricity, water, land, and public money. I don’t think communities should be forced to carry those costs without transparency, strict limits, and local approval. I’m asking [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] to support no new data centers without full public disclosure, community approval, environmental review, and operators paying their full costs. Can you tell me where [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] stands on this?
Story Prompt
I care about data center expansion because [LOCAL CONCERN]. My community should not have to pay the cost of [WATER USE / ELECTRICITY DEMAND / LAND USE / PUBLIC SUBSIDIES / ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE] so private companies can build AI and surveillance infrastructure. I want my representatives to require transparency, limits, and community approval before any new data centers are built.
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AI does not live in the cloud. It lives in data centers that consume electricity, water, land, and public money. No new data centers without strict limits, full transparency, community approval, and operators paying their full costs. NO MORE DATA CENTERS.
NO DIGITAL ID MANDATES
Email Template
Subject: No Mandatory Digital ID Systems Hello [REPRESENTATIVE NAME], I’m writing as a constituent because I’m concerned about digital ID systems becoming mandatory for public services, employment, housing, banking, healthcare, education, and daily life. No one should be forced to use a digital ID, biometric credential, centralized identity system, or private identity provider to participate in society. Digital ID systems can create new risks of exclusion, surveillance, profiling, data breaches, discrimination, and private gatekeeping over essential services. I’m asking you to support policies that require: No mandatory digital ID for public services. No mandatory biometric credentials. Offline and non-digital alternatives for every essential service. No private identity provider lock-in. Strict limits on data sharing, tracking, profiling, and law enforcement access. No denial of services because someone refuses a digital ID. Identity systems should serve people. They should not become checkpoints for daily life. Please let me know what action your office is taking to prevent digital ID mandates and protect people’s right to access services without surveillance. Thank you, [NAME] [CITY / POSTAL CODE]
Call Script
Hi, my name is [NAME], and I live in [CITY / POSTAL CODE]. I’m calling because I’m concerned about digital ID systems becoming mandatory. No one should be forced to use a digital ID, biometric credential, centralized identity system, or private identity provider to access public services, banking, housing, healthcare, employment, or daily life. I’m asking [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] to support strong protections against digital ID mandates and to require offline, non-digital alternatives for all essential services. Can you tell me whether [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] supports that?
Story Prompt
I care about digital ID mandates because [YOUR REASON]. People should not be excluded from [PUBLIC SERVICES / BANKING / HOUSING / HEALTHCARE / EMPLOYMENT / EDUCATION] because they refuse or cannot use a digital ID. I want lawmakers to protect access without surveillance.
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Digital ID should never become a checkpoint for daily life. No one should be forced to use biometric credentials, centralized identity systems, or private identity providers to access basic services. NO DIGITAL ID MANDATES.
NO TRAINING WITHOUT CONSENT
Email Template
Subject: No AI Training Without Consent Hello [REPRESENTATIVE NAME], I’m writing as a constituent because I’m concerned about companies using people’s personal data, communications, creative work, images, and online activity to train AI systems without clear and informed consent. People should not have to assume that everything they post, write, upload, say, create, or share online can be copied into AI training systems. I’m asking you to support policies that require: No AI training on personal data without clear opt-in consent. No AI training on private communications. No AI training on children’s data or sensitive data. No AI training on creative work without permission. Clear disclosures when data may be used for AI training. Easy opt-out, deletion, and withdrawal of consent rights. Real penalties for companies that train on people’s data without consent. AI systems should not be built by extracting people’s lives, work, and communities without permission. Please let me know what action your office is taking to protect people from non-consensual AI training. Thank you, [NAME] [CITY / POSTAL CODE]
Call Script
Hi, my name is [NAME], and I live in [CITY / POSTAL CODE]. I’m calling because I’m concerned about companies using people’s personal data, communications, images, creative work, and online activity to train AI systems without consent. I’m asking [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] to support rules requiring clear opt-in consent before companies can train AI on people’s data or creative work. People should have the right to opt out, delete their data, and withdraw consent. Can you tell me where [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] stands on AI training without consent?
Story Prompt
I care about AI training consent because [YOUR REASON]. My [PERSONAL DATA / CREATIVE WORK / POSTS / PHOTOS / MESSAGES / COMMUNITY CONTENT] should not be used to train AI systems without my clear permission. I want lawmakers to require consent before AI companies use people’s data.
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Your data is not free training material. Your messages are not free training material. Your art, photos, posts, voice, and work are not free training material. NO TRAINING WITHOUT CONSENT.
NO WARRANT, NO DATA
Email Template
Subject: No Warrant, No Data Hello [REPRESENTATIVE NAME], I’m writing as a constituent because I’m concerned that government agencies can access or purchase personal data from companies, platforms, and data brokers without proper judicial authorization. Police, intelligence agencies, immigration authorities, and other government bodies should not be able to buy their way around privacy rights. If the government wants access to sensitive personal data, it should need a warrant or judicial authorization. I’m asking you to support policies that: Require warrants for government access to personal data. Ban government agencies from purchasing brokered personal data without judicial authorization. Ban immigration authorities from using brokered data to track, detain, or deport people without due process. Restrict access to location, biometric, health, religious, political, and immigration-related data. Require public reporting of surveillance contracts and data purchases. Audit government contracts with data brokers, platforms, telecoms, AI companies, and surveillance vendors. Privacy rights should not disappear just because a government agency buys the data from a private company. Please let me know what action your office is taking to close this loophole. Thank you, [NAME] [CITY / POSTAL CODE]
Call Script
Hi, my name is [NAME], and I live in [CITY / POSTAL CODE]. I’m calling because I’m concerned that police, immigration agencies, intelligence agencies, and other government bodies can buy personal data from companies and data brokers without a warrant. I’m asking [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] to support a simple rule: no warrant, no data. Government agencies should need judicial authorization before accessing or purchasing personal data. Can you tell me where [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] stands on this?
Story Prompt
I care about warrantless data access because [YOUR REASON]. Government agencies should not be able to buy data about people’s [LOCATION / CONTACTS / IDENTITY / ONLINE ACTIVITY / IMMIGRATION STATUS / POLITICAL ACTIVITY] without a warrant. I want lawmakers to close the data broker loophole.
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The government should not be able to buy what it would otherwise need a warrant to get. Police, immigration agencies, and intelligence bodies should need judicial authorization before accessing personal data. NO WARRANT, NO DATA.
UNIVERSAL RESOURCES
Universal Representative Message
Subject: Please Support Stronger Protections Against Mass Surveillance Hello [REPRESENTATIVE NAME], I’m writing as a constituent because I’m concerned about the expansion of mass surveillance through data brokers, Big Tech platforms, AI systems, digital ID mandates, data centers, and government access to personal data. I’m asking you to support four basic protections: No More Data Centers No new hyperscale AI or surveillance infrastructure without strict limits, full transparency, community approval, and operators paying their full costs. No Digital ID Mandates No one should be forced to use a digital ID, biometric credential, centralized identity system, or private identity provider to access public services, employment, housing, banking, healthcare, or daily life. No Training Without Consent Companies must not use people’s personal data, communications, creative work, images, or online activity to train AI systems without clear and informed consent. No Warrant, No Data Police, intelligence agencies, immigration authorities, and government bodies must obtain judicial authorization before accessing or purchasing personal data from companies, platforms, or data brokers. These protections are especially important for immigrants, Palestinians, activists, journalists, workers, children, and vulnerable communities who face heightened risks from surveillance, profiling, targeting, censorship, and retaliation. Please let me know what action your office is taking on these issues. Thank you, [NAME] [CITY / POSTAL CODE]
Universal Call Script
Hi, my name is [NAME], and I live in [CITY / POSTAL CODE]. I’m calling because I’m concerned about mass surveillance through data brokers, Big Tech, AI systems, digital ID mandates, data centers, and government access to personal data. I’m asking [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] to support four protections: No more data centers without strict limits, transparency, community approval, and operators paying their full costs. No digital ID mandates for public services, employment, housing, banking, healthcare, or daily life. No AI training on people’s data, communications, creative work, images, or online activity without clear consent. No government access or purchase of personal data without a warrant or judicial authorization. Can you tell me whether [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] supports these protections? Thank you.
Share Your Story
I care about privacy and surveillance because [YOUR REASON]. I am worried about: Data centers because [LOCAL IMPACT]. Digital ID mandates because [ACCESS / EXCLUSION / TRACKING CONCERN]. AI training without consent because [PERSONAL DATA / CREATIVE WORK / COMMUNITY CONTENT CONCERN]. Warrantless data access because [POLICING / IMMIGRATION / GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE CONCERN]. I want lawmakers to protect people from surveillance before the damage is done.
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