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Privacy & surveillance
El-Sayed would ban AI-enabled mass surveillance and predictive policing, and keep healthcare data private unless it is used to provide care.
We've got to stand up to this massive surveillance apparatus that is being built behind closed doors and behind our backs.
WHAT HE HAS SAID
- Would push to prohibit mass political surveillance, predictive policing based on protected characteristics, and AI targeting of dissent.
- Would work to ban AI from conducting warrantless surveillance.
- Believes healthcare data must remain private, and that state and federal government should have no right to access it unless for the purpose of providing healthcare.
- Supports protecting healthcare providers from undue government coercion to provide data.
Primary sources
- Read the AI Under Democracy position — Abdul for U.S. Senate
- Read the Civil Rights & Liberties position — Abdul for U.S. Senate
Last reviewed 2026-08-19.