Your personal data is your property - not Big Tech's playground.

We call on Congress to draft and pass a Digital Privacy Bill of Rights Act: recognizing that personal data belongs to the individual by default, requiring true opt-in consent, guaranteeing simple in-app privacy controls, enforcing full transparency, and ensuring Americans share fairly in any profit made from their data. Privacy is freedom. It's time to take it back - and protect it by law.

Digital Privacy Bill of Rights
We believe every American has the unalienable right to control their personal data. We urge Congress to create a Digital Privacy Bill of Rights that enshrines these principles:

• Personal Ownership: Your personal data - including your location, health information, and online activity - is your property by default. Companies don't own it - you do.
• Explicit, Granular Opt-In Only: No app or service may collect, use, infer or sell your personal data without your clear, informed and separate permission for each specific use. Silence, pre-checked boxes, bundled consents, or forced agreements are not valid consent.
• Easy, Anytime Control: You can change your mind at any time. Every app must provide simple, in-app settings to revoke permissions immediately and fully, without hidden settings, manipulative designs, or unnecessary delays.
• Total Transparency: You have the right to know - in plain, accessible language - exactly what personal data is collected, why it is collected, how it is used, and who it's shared with or sold to. No hidden practices. No vague policies.
• Fair Profit Sharing: If a company profits from selling your data, you must receive at least 50% of that profit. No hidden deals. No creative accounting. No silent exploitation.
• Strong Enforcement and Private Right of Action: Companies that violate your rights must face real consequences - substantial fines proportionate to their revenue, public accountability, and empower you, the individual, to directly sue for violations.
• No Retaliation for Protecting Your Privacy: Companies may not block, disable, degrade, or remove access to core app functions when a user declines to share optional data - unless the personal data is essential to delivering the primary, clearly stated purpose of the app or service. Optional features can be restricted if tied directly to that data (e.g., live location sharing in a tracking app), but essential functionality must remain available without penalty.
• No Hidden Collection or Inferred Data Harvesting: Companies must not bypass user consent by passively collecting signals (like Wi-Fi triangulation or device analytics) to infer personal data without explicit permission. All personal data - whether collected directly or inferred - is protected equally under these rights. 

Americans need privacy protections now.
Every day, Americans are forced to surrender private information just to use basic apps and services. Companies routinely collect, trade, and profit from our locations, health records, and behaviors — often without our clear understanding or consent. Meanwhile, a patchwork of weak and outdated laws leaves most citizens with little to no protection.

Congress must fix this by creating and passing a Digital Privacy Bill of Rights that:

• Legally recognizes personal data as the private property of the individual.
• Requires clear, separate, opt-in consent before any personal information is collected or used.
• Guarantees easy, anytime control to stop or revoke data sharing.
• Enforces full transparency about data collection and sharing practices.
• Shares profits from any sale of personal data with the individual (minimum 50%).
• Imposes strict penalties on companies that violate these rights, including heavy fines and giving individuals the right to sue for abuses.
• Prohibits companies from blocking, degrading, or disabling essential app features when users decline optional data sharing.
• Bans hidden data collection and the use of passive signals to infer personal information without explicit permission.

Privacy is a human right — not a corporate loophole.
Congress has the responsibility to protect our freedom to privacy in the digital age. 

We urge you to act now to draft a Digital Privacy Bill of Rights that will return control of Americans' personal data to the people it belongs to.

Americans have waited long enough. We demand action - and we will remember who stood for freedom, and who stood in the way.