Stop funding surveillance clothing!
Petition to Congress:
We urge you to protect our privacy and data by halting intelligence spending on projects like surveillance clothing known as SMART ePANTs.
U.S. intelligence is investing millions of dollars into a new type of surveillance…clothes with cameras.
No joke, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has earmarked $22 million for surveillance clothes like SMART ePANTs that spy on the wearer and everything around them.1
Mass surveillance has already gone too far, but when we’re talking about clothing that spies on us, we’re not only veering into dystopian science fiction, we’re going into the absurd and the massively wasteful.
Sign the petition: Tell Congress to block spending on invasive surveillance technology like pants with cameras.
How have we come to a place where we need Congress to step in to stop “pants with cameras?” It’s completely ridiculous.
But when mass surveillance has grown completely out of control, with cameras everywhere, facial recognition technology at the fingertips of law enforcement, data collection tools that scrape the internet for our data, and even police-operated robots, nothing is off the table for U.S. intelligence agencies.
This is a much larger problem than just “SMART ePANTS” that will record unsuspecting people and collect data, which is why Demand Progress continues years of tirelessly advocacy for the right to privacy for all, protections against government collection of our data, and full enforcement of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution.
One step in the right direction is blocking this latest government overreach further into mass surveillance, and mass invasions of privacy.
Add your name: Stop spending taxpayer dollars on surveillance pants!
Sources:
- The Intercept, “U.S. Spy Agency Dreams of Surveillance Underwear It's Calling 'Smart ePants,'” September 2, 2023.