EBOR- Congressional Policy Change Prospal
Introduction: The Need for an Electronic Bill of Rights
The rise of global tech addiction, digital colonialism, and cyber-enslavement—fueled by exploitative and oppressive business practices rooted in Surveillance Capitalism—makes it clear that governments worldwide must adopt an Electronic Bill of Rights (EBOR). Today, personal data is routinely exploited, privacy is eroded, and technology is weaponized against individuals by the very companies entrusted with their loyalty, patronage, and hard-earned money.
Living “off the grid” is no longer an option in a connected world where people depend on smartphones, tablets, and other connected products. These devices, supported by telecommunications and internet infrastructure, are regulated by government agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), tasked with protecting citizens from harmful technologies; the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), responsible for consumer protection; and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), charged with safeguarding against foreign influence and tech-based hybrid warfare.
Yet these protections have proven insufficient.
Everyday consumer products of necessity have been transformed into surveillance and data-mining tools by multinational corporations, including adversarial actors in China and Russia. These products operate on leaky operating systems—Android, iOS, and Windows—that enable addictive, manipulative, and brain-hijacking technologies. AI chatbots, deliberately programmed to induce the “Eliza Effect,” further magnify these risks, creating massive threats to users—including teens and children.
Meanwhile, governments too often side with tech giants, protecting dangerous business models designed to maximize profits at the expense of citizens’ safety, privacy, and civil liberties while citizens, including teens and children, are being addicted, harmed, and even killed in the name of profits rather than being treated as loyal customers who deserve protection from their government.
This symbiotic relationship between governments and global tech corporations must end. Enslaved consumers of connected products deserve liberation from exploitative, addictive, and dangerous technologies embedded in apps, social media platforms, gaming systems, AI chatbots, and other digital services while adults, teens, and children need protection.
Never before in history have technology developers, OEMs, and innovators—including those advancing AI—weaponize their own products against their paying customers for profit, even at the expense of privacy, security, safety, civil liberties, and data and financial sovereignty.
Adults, teens, children, and professionals alike are now expendable commodities used for profits rather than being viewed as citizens or paying customers with human and civil rights.
Without enforceable digital rights, consumers will remain subject to predatory business models, government overreach, and monopolistic control.
The Electronic Bill of Rights framework establishes essential protections to uphold privacy, security, and digital freedom, ensuring that individuals can control their data, devices, and online experiences without being coerced into participation through predatory contracts of adhesion or exploitative surveillance-driven business models.
Governments owe it to their citizens to defend them from these threats and to prevent exploitation for profit at the expense of their most fundamental rights.
This is not only a matter of public safety—it is also a matter of cybersecurity, national security, and data sovereignty.
By implementing these rights, governments can restore balance to the digital ecosystem, protecting citizens from exploitation while fostering innovation that respects human rights and consumer interests. Only through enforceable regulation can personal freedom be safeguarded in the digital age.
EBOR- Framework
Electronic Bill of Rights Congressional Policy Change Framework
Article I: Right to Data Privacy
- Individuals shall have the right to control their personal data, including collection, storage, processing, and distribution.
- Consent must be explicit, informed, and revocable at any time.
- Companies and organizations must disclose how user data is collected, shared, and monetized in clear, understandable language—free from technical jargon, written in plain English (or the applicable primary language of the user), and easily accessible without requiring excessive navigation or legal expertise.
Article II: Right to Data Security
- Individuals have the right to expect robust security measures to protect their personal information.
- Companies must implement end-to-end encryption, multi-factor authentication, and other security protocols to prevent unauthorized access.
- Any data breach must be immediately disclosed to affected individuals and regulatory bodies.
Article III: Right to Digital Anonymity
- No individual shall be compelled to disclose personal information beyond what is necessary for a specific service.
- Users shall have the right to browse the internet, communicate, and conduct transactions anonymously.
Article IV: Right to Be Forgotten
- Individuals have the right to request the permanent deletion of their data from online platforms and databases.
- Companies must honor deletion requests promptly, barring exceptions for legal or regulatory obligations.
Article V: Right to Opt-Out of Data Monetization
- Users shall have the right to opt out of targeted advertising and data-sharing agreements without being penalized or denied service.
- Alternative business models that do not rely on invasive data mining must be available.
Article VIII: Right to Digital Freedom and Free Speech
- No entity, public or private, shall unlawfully censor or restrict lawful digital expression.
- Content moderation policies must be transparent, consistently applied, and subject to independent appeals processes.
Article IX: Right to Own and Control Digital Identity
- Individuals have the right to control their digital identities, including usernames, biometric data, and online personas.
- No government or corporation shall claim ownership over an individual’s digital identity.
Article X: Right to Decentralized and Open Internet
- Users have the right to access a free, open, and decentralized internet without undue restrictions.
- Net neutrality must be upheld to prevent ISPs from prioritizing certain content over others.
- Decentralized technologies must be legally protected to ensure alternatives to centralized control.
Article XI: Right to Protection from Corporate and Foreign Surveillance
- Companies, app developers, and multinational corporations shall be banned from conducting surveillance and data mining on any smartphone, tablet PC, connected product, or PC supported by Android, iOS, or Windows.
Article XII: Right to National and Consumer Security and Safety
- It shall be illegal for tech giants to form symbiotic relationships with foreign tech companies beholden to oppressive governments or adversarial nations.
- No corporation shall be permitted to distribute intrusive, addictive, or dangerous operating systems, apps, or AI-infused products developed under the control of oppressive governments.
- It shall be illegal to share developer tools, AI development tools, or AI-driven chips (GPUs) with companies under the control of oppressive governments or adversarial nations.
Article XIII: The Abolishment of Web Scraping, Web Crawling, and Web Tracking
- Web scraping is data theft and shall be illegal without explicit consent of the website owner or content creator.
- It shall be illegal to train AI on scraped copyrighted or original works without consent.
- AI shall not impersonate any individual (likeness, biometric data, or voice print) without explicit consent.
- Individuals shall retain the right to sell access to their likeness.
- Web tracking shall be illegal—no individual shall be tracked by websites, crawlers, bots, or any tracking technology.
Article XIV: The Right to Accountability from Tech Giants
- Developers, executives, and board members shall be held accountable for harm, addiction, or death caused by their products.
- Section 230 protections shall be abolished.
- Tech companies shall be accountable as editors if they censor or suppress legitimate news and press.
Article XV: The Right to Safe, Secure, and Private Preinstalled Apps & Technology
- No operating system may include uncontrollable preinstalled surveillance or data mining technology.
Article XVI: The Right to Safe Technology
- No app, social media platform, or AI product may contain addictive or manipulative technologies designed to exploit users.
- Platforms must disclose bot use, and no platform may use bots to deceive.
- Governments and intelligence agencies shall be banned from creating consumer accounts.
- Consumer protection laws must be enforced; tech lobbying must be transparent.
Article XVII: The Right to Influencer and Bot Transparency
- Influencers, corporations, and agencies must disclose use of bots.
- Deceptive marketing via automation shall be illegal.
- Malicious bot use for disinformation, election interference, or propaganda shall be illegal.
Article XIX: Freedom from Addictive, Divisive, and Manipulative Technology
- Developers shall not provide technology designed to hijack user behavior or induce manipulation.
- Such technologies, deemed more harmful than subliminal advertising, shall be banned.
Article XX: Freedom from Government & Tech Collusion
- Governments are banned from colluding with tech firms to suppress rights, liberties, free speech, press, or privacy.
- Developers are banned from hiring former government officials for political influence.
- Governments may only hire former tech employees for legitimate national security purposes—not for political suppression.
Article XXI: Right to Data Collection Transparency
- Companies must disclose all data collection, sharing, and monetization practices.
- Users may request a copy of their data and demand deletion within 7 business days.
- Third-party data collection must be disclosed, including from data brokers.
Article XXII: Freedom from Indiscriminate Surveillance and Data Mining
- Indiscriminate surveillance and non-essential data collection shall be banned.
- Collection of confidential, legal, medical, biometric, or classified information shall be prohibited.
Article XXIII: Freedom from Forced Participation by Way of Legal Agreements
- Contracts of adhesion forcing consumers to accept surveillance or data mining to use purchased products shall be banned.
Article XXIX: Freedom to Control Technology and Connected Products
- Consumers must have full control over their devices and be able to delete unwanted software or apps.
Article XXX: The Right to Transparent Legal Language & App Permissions
- All legal language must be concise and transparent.
- Consumers must have full control over app permissions.
- All data collection and app permissions must be disclosed in one place.
Article XXXI: Ban on Teen Acceptance of Legal Agreements
- No minor under 18 shall be permitted to accept legal agreements for digital services.
Article XXXII: Right to Transparent AI and Algorithmic Accountability
- AI and algorithms must be transparent, explainable, and free from discrimination.
- Users must be able to contest AI-driven decisions.
- Dangerous, addictive, manipulative, or exploitative algorithms shall be illegal.
Article XXXIII: Right to Fair Terms and Conditions
- End-user agreements must be concise, plain-language, and overseen independently.
- One-way contracts of adhesion shall be banned.
- Consumers rejecting terms must still be able to use purchased products.
Article XXXIV: Anti-Trust Protections & Internet Centralization
- Surveillance for competitive advantage shall be banned.
- Tech companies shall not monopolize OS, apps, media, or AI via app stores or preinstalled software.
- Tech lobbying by former government officials shall be banned.
Article XXXV: National, Internet, and Technology Safety
- Symbiotic relationships between domestic tech firms and adversarial nation-controlled companies shall be banned.
- Sharing of developer tools, AI tools, or chips with adversarial nations shall be prohibited.
Article XXXVI: The Right to Sue and Hold Tech Giants Accountable
- Consumers shall have the right to sue for predatory or dangerous products.
- Tech firms and their executives may be held criminally and civilly liable.
- Section 230 protections shall be abolished.
End Surveillance Capitalism!
Threats Posed by Surveillance Capitalism
There is a drastic need for an Electronic Bill of Rights due to threats posed by Surveillance Capitalism.
Topics- Electronic Bill of Rights Policy Framework
Below are topics that are addressed within the current EBOR congressional policy framework.
As technology changes, there will be more topics to added.
Global Data Brokers – Alphabet (Google), Apple, Meta, ByteDance, and Microsoft
Today’s tech giants operate as global data brokers, competing in the trillion-dollar information trafficking industry—driven by surveillance-based business practices and targeted advertising.
Surveillance Capitalism
These corporations have adopted Surveillance Capitalism as their core business model—built on the systematic exploitation of product owners, including teens, children, and business professionals.
Exploitation Through Connected Products of Necessity
Consumers of smartphones, tablet PCs, and other connected products supported by Android OS, Apple iOS, or Microsoft Windows are exploited for profit—at the direct expense of their privacy, safety, civil liberties, human rights, and data sovereignty.
The Rise of Cyber-Enslavement & Digital Colonialism Through Connected Products of Necessity
Essential connected products have been weaponized by OS, app, social media, and AI developers—transforming everyday devices, that cost money, into tools of surveillance and data mining that enable the developers to exploit product owners, including children, as uncompensated information-producing slaves.
Global data brokers, operating under the guise of operating system and AI infused app developers, are extracting the world’s most valuable resource—information—from nearly every nation, while governments fail to recognize that their citizens have been reduced to cyber-slaves. This information is harvested and sold without compensation to the individuals or the countries from which it originates. This is the very definition of Digital Colonialism.
Non-Enforcement of Existing Consumer and Child Protection Laws
The Federal Trade Commission, The Federal Communications Commission, and state attorney generals, consistently fail to enforce existing privacy, protection, and telecommunication laws.
The failure to enforce existing laws leaves consumers, children, and business professionals vulnerable to predatory business practices, addictive technologies, harmful and deadly products, and unauthorized surveillance and data mining by way of tech and telecom products supported by telecom and internet infrastructure regulated by the FCC.
Government Oppression by Proxy – Tech and Government Collusion
Through collusion with tech giants, governments, including oppressive regimes, use connected products of necessity—supported by Android OS, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows—as proxy tools to erode human rights and civil liberties, including privacy, security, safety, free speech, and freedom of the press.
Leaky Operating Systems, Legal Malware, and Manipulative AI Chatbots
Android OS, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows support intrusive, addictive, manipulative, and dangerous apps, social media platforms, and AI chatbots—intentionally designed as legal malware.
These technologies incorporate brain hijacking techniques and exploit the Eliza Effect (humanization of AI), posing significant threats and harm to end users, especially children.
Cybersecurity Threats – Indiscriminate Surveillance and Data Mining
Indiscriminate surveillance and data mining conducted through Android OS, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows—as well as the apps, social media platforms, and AI they support—pose significant cybersecurity threats to businesses.
Sensitive business data, including intellectual property (IP), is collected alongside highly confidential personal information by all developers involved, including those from adversarial nations such as China and Russia.
Legalized Espionage by Proxy – Tech Conflict of Interest
Tech giants like Alphabet, Meta, ByteDance (China), and Tencent (China) compete across global industries, yet governments permit these multinational corporations to conduct mass surveillance and data mining on individuals—including business professionals—for profit.
These companies gather business intelligence across sectors by surveilling billions through smartphones, computers, and connected products powered by Android OS, Apple iOS, and Windows OS.
These tech giants also collect sensitive data on corporate executives, employees, and board members—individuals who use their operating systems, apps, and AI who work for companies in direct competition with the very tech firms harvesting their information, this is the definition of legalized corporate espionage.
Unrestricted and Tech-Based Hybrid Warfare Waged Through Connected Products
The erosion of privacy and security in smartphones, PCs, servers, and other connected products has empowered governments—including oppressive regimes—to conduct unrestricted and tech-based hybrid warfare.
This includes psychological and cognitive warfare, election interference, and the global dissemination of propaganda and misinformation through AI-infused apps, social media platforms, and AI chatbots.
These forms of warfare target all internet users—including teens and children.
Foreign Surveillance, Data Mining, and Espionage, Enabled by U.S. Tech Giants
Through their control over the global distribution of AI-infused apps, social media platforms, and AI chatbots, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are responsible for the global distribution of highly addictive apps, social media platforms, and AI chatbots developed in China and Russia.
These U.S. tech giants also share intellectual property—including AI-related IP—with developers in these countries, who must tailor their products to operate on Android OS, Apple iOS, or Microsoft Windows, thereby facilitating foreign surveillance, data mining, and espionage by proxy.
Foreign Influence Operations Backed by Lobbyists and Law Firms
Tech companies from China and Russia conduct foreign influence operations through powerful law firms and lobbyists—many of whom are former elected officials and presidential advisors, regardless of political affiliation (Democrat, Republican, or Independent).
Loss of Privacy, Security, Safety, Civil Liberties, and Data Sovereignty
One-way contracts of adhesion—embedded in operating systems, apps, social media platforms, and AI—strip users of privacy, security, safety, civil liberties, human rights, and data sovereignty.
Loss of Copyrighted Content and Intellectual Property by Proxy
Governments enable tech giants to legally steal copyrighted content and intellectual property (IP) under the guise of AI innovation and unregulated surveillance-based business practices.
Forced Participation Through Predatory Contracts of Adhesion
Consumers are coerced into accepting predatory contracts of adhesion—tantamount to cyber-enslavement agreements—that require users to forgo privacy, security, safety, civil liberties, and data sovereignty simply to use connected products powered by Android OS, Apple iOS, or Microsoft Windows.
Government-Regulated Infrastructure Exploited for Unauthorized Surveillance
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) enables surveillance and data mining by OS, app, social media, and AI developers by allowing their technologies to operate over telecommunications and internet infrastructure regulated for public use.
Legalized Oppression and Exploitation of Consumers and Children by Proxy
Governments have failed to protect consumers—including teens, children, and business professionals—from legalized oppression, exploitation, and cyber-enslavement via essential connected products.
Monopoly Control and Centralization of Internet Access
Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple dominate global access to internet trade and commerce through control of the operating system market while controlling the global development and distribution of AI infused apps, social media, and AI chatbots all supported by surveillance technologies and business practices rooted in Surveillance Capitalism.
The Need for an Electronic Bill of Rights
Without comprehensive legislative reform—such as an Electronic Bill of Rights that directly addresses Surveillance Capitalism—there will be no privacy, security, data sovereignty, safety, or true civil liberties for anyone who connects to the internet via Android, iOS, or Windows.
Your privacy, your freedom, your future—it’s time to reclaim them through meaningful legislation rooted in an Electronic Bill of Rights.
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