Executive Order: Prohibiting Corporate Surveillance, Behavioral Manipulation, and the Outsourcing of Population Control Against the American People

The Constitution of the United States was written to protect the American people from the concentration of power — in any form, in any institution, under any justification.

For decades, that compact has been systematically violated. Federal agencies have contracted with private corporations to perform surveillance functions the Constitution prohibits government from conducting directly. Private entities — data brokers, artificial intelligence firms, behavioral analytics companies, and social media platforms — have constructed surveillance and behavioral manipulation infrastructure of a scale and sophistication that no government in history has possessed. Institutional investors and private equity firms have financed this infrastructure not in service of the public interest but in service of extraction, compliance, and control.

The result is a public-private surveillance architecture that operates outside constitutional constraint, outside democratic accountability, and outside the consent of the governed.

This Executive Order establishes that it ends. The American people are not a managed population. They are not a data asset. They are not a behavioral system to be optimized. They are free citizens of a sovereign republic, and this administration will govern them as such.

2.1: Private corporations currently possess surveillance capabilities exceeding those of any government in history, including the capacity to collect, store, process, and act upon behavioral data covering the entire civilian population of the United States without individualized consent, judicial oversight, or constitutional constraint.

2.2: Federal agencies — including DHS, FBI, DEA, IRS, and elements of the Intelligence Community — have purchased civilian surveillance data from private brokers to circumvent the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, exploiting the legal fiction that data "voluntarily" surrendered to a private party carries no constitutional protection.

2.3: Artificial intelligence systems deployed by private corporations are being used to predict, profile, and alter the behavior of American civilians at population scale, including through the deliberate manipulation of information environments, the suppression or amplification of content based on behavioral compliance metrics, and the construction of psychological profiles used for targeting without consent.

2.4: The same small group of institutional asset managers — through their simultaneous ownership of surveillance technology companies, data brokers, AI firms, social media platforms, and government contractors — has created a unified private surveillance and behavioral control infrastructure that operates with no democratic accountability and no public interest mandate.

2.5: The outsourcing of surveillance and behavioral control functions to private entities does not make those functions constitutional. What the government may not do directly, it may not accomplish indirectly through contractors, data purchases, or public-private partnerships.

2.6: A surveillance and behavioral manipulation infrastructure of this scale constitutes a threat to democratic governance, individual liberty, and the sovereignty of the American people.

No covered agency shall enter into, renew, or maintain any contract or agreement with any surveillance contractor for the purpose of obtaining mass civilian surveillance data, behavioral profiles, psychological assessments, or derived analytical products.

No covered agency shall purchase, license, or otherwise acquire data derived from mass civilian surveillance of American civilians from any private entity — regardless of whether that entity holds a formal federal contract.

No covered agency, officer, or employee shall request, receive, or use any surveillance data or behavioral profile derived from mass civilian surveillance that could not have been collected directly under the requirements of the Fourth Amendment. This prohibition applies regardless of the form of the arrangement or whether financial consideration was exchanged.

No covered agency shall route the acquisition of American civilian surveillance data through a foreign government, foreign intelligence service, or foreign entity for the purpose or effect of circumventing constitutional requirements. The government may not acquire offshore what it is prohibited from collecting at home.

No covered agency shall purchase, receive, or acquire personal data relating to American civilians from any foreign government, foreign state-owned enterprise, or foreign intelligence service, where such acquisition would be prohibited if the data had been obtained from a domestic private entity.

No entity — regardless of size, revenue, or federal contract status — shall engage in mass civilian surveillance or behavioral manipulation of American civilians without the express, specific, and revocable informed consent of each individual surveilled or targeted.

Any private equity firm, institutional asset manager, parent company, or controlling investor that finances, directs, or benefits from mass civilian surveillance or behavioral manipulation conducted by any entity within its ownership or control structure shall be jointly and severally liable for all violations — to the same extent as if the controlling entity had conducted the surveillance directly. Corporate separateness is not a defense.

No person or entity shall structure, divide, or reorganize surveillance or behavioral manipulation operations across multiple legal entities for the purpose or effect of avoiding these prohibitions. The aggregate activity of any affiliated group of entities under common ownership is treated as the activity of a single entity. Surveillance fragmentation is treated with the same legal seriousness as financial structuring to evade anti-money laundering law.

No entity shall deploy any system, algorithm, or AI mechanism for the purpose of deliberately engineering emotional states, constructing information environments designed to restrict what individuals can know, exploiting psychological vulnerabilities — including grief, fear, loneliness, financial stress, or addiction — for targeting or manipulation, or operating sentiment manipulation campaigns that amplify division, demoralization, or social distrust within the American civilian population.

No covered entity shall sell, license, or transfer — under any circumstances, for any consideration, regardless of any purported consent — any data that identifies, predicts, or scores the psychological vulnerabilities of American civilians. A person's psychological vulnerabilities are not a product. This prohibition is absolute.

The President calls upon Congress to establish, by statute and ultimately by constitutional amendment, the Constitutional People's Counsel — an independent officer of Congress, not of the executive branch, who serves as the permanent public advocate for the constitutional rights of the American people against all concentrations of power, whether governmental or corporate.

The Constitutional People's Counsel shall not be subject to removal, direction, or budget control by the President or any executive branch official. Its funding shall be provided through mandatory appropriations written into statute. It shall have independent standing to bring civil and constitutional actions in any federal court against any entity — corporate, federal, or state — without authorization from any branch of government.

The Constitutional People's Counsel is not a new bureaucracy. It is a public defender for the Constitution — structured like the Comptroller General or the Congressional Budget Office: politically insulated, institutionally durable, and belonging entirely to the public it serves.

No future President shall be able to fire the People's Counsel, redirect its mandate, cut its funding unilaterally, or use it as an instrument against the states or the public. That protection must be built into its structure from the first day of its existence.

The President calls upon Congress to enact the American Civilian Sovereignty Act, converting the prohibitions of this Order into permanent federal law with civil and criminal penalties, a private right of action for every American citizen, and the establishment of the Constitutional People's Counsel as a permanent Article I officer.

The President further calls upon Congress to propose the American Civilian Sovereignty Amendment to the Constitution, establishing that the rights protecting Americans from government overreach apply equally to corporations operating at population scale, and permanently enshrining the Constitutional People's Counsel as the enforcement mechanism for those protections.

The Cordova administration will work with any member of Congress, of any party, to build that protection.