Cordova 2028 Unveils the American Civilian Sovereignty Package: A Comprehensive Framework to End Corporate Surveillance, Psychological Manipulation, and the Sale of American Civilian Data

The United States is the only G20 country without a comprehensive federal data privacy law. In the vacuum created by Congress's repeated failure to act, a surveillance economy has been constructed that now reaches into every home, every pocket, and every mind in America.

Approximately 4,000 data broker companies currently operate in the United States, holding files on virtually every American adult — their location history, their purchasing behavior, their health inferences, their political leanings, their psychological profiles. These files are bought, sold, and resold through a commercial chain that the individuals whose lives they represent never consented to and largely cannot see.

Federal agencies — including the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the DEA, and the IRS — have purchased this data from private brokers to circumvent the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. The government cannot legally collect this data directly. So it pays corporations to collect it, then buys the results.

Private equity firms and institutional asset managers — BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street — simultaneously control the surveillance data collection layer, the AI behavioral manipulation layer, the social media distribution layer, and the government contracting layer. They have also developed a specific mechanism for defeating regulatory prohibition: deliberately fragmenting surveillance operations across networks of smaller entities, each staying below any regulatory threshold, while maintaining full aggregate surveillance capability.

The most dangerous product in this economy is psychological vulnerability data — AI-generated assessments of an individual's grief, fear, loneliness, financial desperation, addiction vulnerability, and susceptibility to manipulation. This data commands the highest prices in the commercial market and is used to exploit the very people it profiles. No federal law currently prohibits its sale.

In 2024, a United States senator revealed that a data broker had sold location data tied to visits to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood clinics across 48 states. An anti-abortion group used that data to target those individuals with millions of personalized ads. It was entirely legal.

The American Civilian Sovereignty Package closes five structural gaps that no existing law addresses — at the executive, statutory, and constitutional levels simultaneously.

Gap 1: The Constitutional Gap. Bill of Rights protections do not currently apply to corporations. The proposed Constitutional Amendment extends them to every entity — domestic or foreign — at any scale.

Gap 2: The Threshold Floor. Every regulatory threshold is a floor for private equity to engineer around. The Cordova framework eliminates all thresholds. The prohibition applies to every entity regardless of size, revenue, or federal contract status.

Gap 3: The Fragmentation Loophole. Splitting surveillance operations across multiple entities to avoid a prohibition is now itself an independent violation. The aggregate activity of affiliated entities under common ownership is treated as the activity of a single entity. Private equity firms and institutional holders are jointly and severally liable for surveillance conducted across their portfolios.

Gap 4: The Public-Private Surveillance Loophole. Government agencies purchasing what they cannot legally collect is a constitutional violation dressed in commercial clothing. It closes on day one — and is extended to cover foreign routing, so the government cannot acquire offshore what it is prohibited from collecting at home.

Gap 5: The Data Sale Gap. No law currently prohibits the commercial sale of American civilian data as a commodity. The Cordova framework closes this comprehensively, with an absolute ban on psychological vulnerability data sales, recursive resale liability that travels through the entire data supply chain, the National Do Not Sell Registry, and the National Data Transaction Registry.

On the first day of a Cordova administration, the President will sign an Executive Order that immediately closes the public-private surveillance loophole — no federal agency may purchase civilian data from private brokers without a warrant.

The Order prohibits mass civilian surveillance and psychological manipulation with no size or contract threshold. It immediately and absolutely bans the commercial sale of psychological vulnerability data — effective day one, no exceptions.

It establishes affiliate and network liability reaching PE firms and institutional holders, prohibits deliberate fragmentation of surveillance operations across entities, and bans AI-driven psychological manipulation including engineered emotional states, information environment control, exploitation of psychological vulnerabilities, manufactured social division, and synthetic deceptive content.

The Order prohibits the export of American civilian data to foreign entities where it circumvents domestic prohibitions, and prohibits federal agencies from acquiring American civilian data from foreign governments or intelligence services.

The Cordova administration will submit to Congress within 90 days the American Civilian Sovereignty Act — permanent federal law that codifies all Executive Order prohibitions in statute with no threshold and no sunset.

The Act establishes civil penalties of $10,000 per affected individual per violation with no aggregate cap, and criminal penalties of up to 15 years imprisonment for officers and directors who knowingly direct violations.

It creates a private right of action — any American civilian may sue any entity, corporate or governmental, for violations; no arbitration clause or class action waiver may block these claims.

The Act establishes the National Do Not Sell Registry — a free, permanent mechanism through which any American may prohibit the sale of their personal data by any covered entity, anywhere, forever, with a single registration — and the National Data Transaction Registry, through which any American may view every transaction involving their data, who purchased it, what was paid, and what purpose was stated.

The Act creates the Constitutional People's Counsel as a permanent Article I officer of Congress — not an executive agency — who cannot be removed by the President, cannot have their budget cut unilaterally, and has independent standing to take any entity to court on behalf of the American people.

The Cordova administration will call on Congress to propose a Constitutional Amendment that establishes Bill of Rights protections apply to every entity — government or corporate — at any scale.

The Amendment enshrines the right to an unmanipulated mind and unmanipulated information environment as fundamental constitutional rights, non-waivable by any contract or terms of service.

It establishes permanently that American civilian data is not a commodity — and that the sale of psychological vulnerability data is prohibited absolutely under the Constitution of the United States.

The Amendment closes the public-private surveillance loophole at the constitutional level — domestic and foreign — and permanently establishes the Constitutional People's Counsel as constitutionally protected from executive removal or defunding.

A defining feature of the Cordova framework is its explicit rejection of new executive branch agencies. New agencies can be captured, defunded, or weaponized against the states and the public by future administrations.

Instead, the framework establishes 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 unaccountable power, governmental or corporate.

The People's Counsel cannot be removed by the President. Its funding is provided by mandatory appropriation that no executive can impound or reduce. It is appointed by joint resolution of Congress for a single seven-year term and is removable only by impeachment for cause. It has independent standing to sue any entity in any federal court, without authorization from any branch of government.

Its mandate explicitly prohibits its use as an instrument against the states. It reports publicly to Congress every quarter in fully unclassified reports that cannot be suppressed or classified by any executive branch official.

All official documents in the American Civilian Sovereignty Package are available below. Vincent Cordova is a candidate for President of the United States.

• ↓Press Release PDF — American Civilian Sovereignty Package
• ↓Presidential Executive Order — Prohibiting Corporate Surveillance, Behavioral Manipulation, and Population Control
• ↓A Bill — The American Civilian Sovereignty Act (Proposed Legislation)
• ↓Complete Policy Document — Civilian Sovereignty in the Digital Age
• ↓Policy Brief — Ending Corporate Surveillance, Psychological Manipulation, and the Sale of American Civilian Data
• ↓The American Civilian Sovereignty Amendment (Proposed Constitutional Amendment)
• ↓A Letter to the American People — Civilian Sovereignty