Big Tech Spies on You for Profit. Washington Buys the Results.

Pick up your phone and look at it for a second.

That device knows where you slept last night. It knows what you searched at 2 a.m. when you could not sleep. It knows who you texted, what you bought, what you believe, and what you are afraid of. It has built a more complete record of your life than any government in human history could have dreamed of compiling.

And here is the part that should make you angry: none of that record belongs to you. It belongs to the companies that collected it, and they sell it for billions. You are not the customer. You are the inventory.

I am running for the United States Senate to change that, and I want to tell you exactly how.

The original Magna Carta established one idea that changed the world: even the king is not above the law. Eight centuries later, a new kind of sovereign has appeared. It does not wear a crown. It writes the algorithms that decide what you see, it owns the data that describes who you are, and it reaches into your private life on a scale no monarch ever imagined.

We need a Digital Magna Carta to bind it. And it rests on one simple principle that the entire political class has spent twenty years pretending not to understand:

Your constitutional rights do not evaporate because you went online. The First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments are not suspended at the login screen.

Your right to speak is still your right to speak when the public square is a privately owned server. Your private messages are still your “papers” in the Fourth Amendment sense. The data your life generates is property, and it is yours. And no American should be erased from the modern public square by a secret decision, with no notice, no reason, and no appeal.

The first is corporate. A handful of platforms harvest the most intimate record of human behavior ever assembled, then rent access to it. They decide what billions of people see. And they can remove you from the conversation with a mouse click and owe you no explanation.

The second is your own government, and this is the part almost nobody talks about. Decades ago, the Supreme Court invented something called the third-party doctrine, the idea that anything you share with a company loses its constitutional protection. In an era when living your life means sharing almost everything with some company, that loophole has swallowed the Fourth Amendment whole.

It gets worse. Federal agencies figured out they do not even need to bend the rules. They can simply buy your data from private brokers, the exact same information they would need a warrant to seize. They purchase their way around the Constitution, and they do it with your tax dollars.

If the government needs a warrant to search your house, it should need a warrant to search your phone. Buying your location history from a data broker is a search, and right now nobody is stopping it.

This is not vague. It is a real legislative framework, six parts, with teeth.

You own your data, and you get paid when it is sold. Your personal information, biometric, location, health, financial, behavioral, is your property under the Fifth Amendment. If a company profits from it, you share in that profit. And you get the full set of rights over it: to know, access, delete, correct, move, and say no.

The government gets a warrant. Period. Close the third-party loophole. Close the data-broker purchase loophole. Protect strong encryption, with no government backdoors, because a backdoor built for the FBI is a backdoor waiting for every hacker and hostile government on the planet.

Due process in the digital public square. The biggest platforms function as the modern town square, and they should be held to it. Clear and consistent rules instead of hidden discretion. The right to know why you were banned or demonetized, and a real right to appeal. Transparency and independent auditing of the algorithms that shape what the whole country sees.

Our kids are not a product to be farmed. Ban commercial surveillance of children. Ban the addictive design tricks, the infinite scroll, the autoplay, the manipulation engineered to hook young minds. Ban targeted advertising aimed at kids. Hold platforms liable when negligent design harms a child, and bring criminal penalties against adults who use these platforms to exploit minors.

Workers keep their dignity in the gig economy. Minimum wage and benefits for gig workers, protection against being fired by an algorithm with no human review, and benefits that follow the worker instead of trapping them on one app.

You can leave, and take your life with you. Interoperability and data portability, so no company can lock you in and hold your information and your relationships hostage.

And none of it means anything without enforcement. So: a Digital Rights Division at the Justice Department, the right to sue with real damages, penalties large enough to change corporate behavior, criminal liability for executives who knowingly break the law, and authority for state attorneys general to fight alongside citizens.

Here is why I think this wins. The same protection that stops a tech company from silencing a pastor stops it from silencing an activist. The same warrant requirement that guards a gun owner’s records guards a journalist’s sources.

Conservatives get real limits on Big Tech and on government surveillance. Libertarians get property rights in their own data and a check on the state. Liberals get privacy and algorithmic accountability. Working people get protection from corporate power. Rights that protect everyone are the only rights that last.

The Digital Magna Carta is the first pillar of a larger agenda I call The People’s Contract for America. The other three follow the same logic of taking power back: campaign finance reform, so Big Tech cannot buy the politicians who are supposed to regulate it; election integrity, so the people actually pick their leaders; and term limits, so those leaders serve you instead of themselves.

Big Tech funds the politicians who refuse to rein in Big Tech. The same platforms that harvest your data shape the news you see before you vote. You cannot fix one piece in isolation. You fix it all at once, and this is where it starts.

Read the Digital Magna Carta Position Paper

https://www.scribd.com/document/1055758753/The-Digital-Magna-Carta

For twenty years, both parties have let this happen. They took the donations and looked the other way while you were turned into a product. I will not.

If you want a Senator who treats your data as your property and your rights as non-negotiable, then stand with this campaign.

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They rigged the system against you. This campaign is going to give the power back.

- Chris

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