1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

I'm a constituent writing to ask you to cosponsor H.R. 8470, the Surveillance Accountability Act. Rep. Thomas Massie introduced it on April 23, 2026, with Rep. Lauren Boebert as the original cosponsor, and it's currently parked in the House Judiciary Committee. It deserves your name on it. The bill does one essential thing: it requires a probable-cause warrant before the government can obtain your data, metadata, and personal records — whether they're held by a bank, a phone company, an internet provider, a cloud service, or a data broker, and whether or not the company cooperates. It also shuts down the "it was already public" excuse for systematic warrantless collection of faces, license plate images, vehicle metadata, and movement patterns. And it creates a real cause of action when federal officials violate the Fourth Amendment, including attorney's fees. That remedy matters because right now there's almost no consequence. The ACLU has documented DHS components buying commercial location data rather than going to a judge, and describes it plainly as the government purchasing its way around the Fourth Amendment. EPIC warns that unregulated surveillance hits vulnerable communities hardest. And in Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court already held that police need a warrant for cell-site location data — this bill extends that same logic to the rest of our digital lives. This shouldn't be a partisan fight. Warrantless data purchases worry conservatives about administrative overreach and progressives about unchecked police power. Both concerns are legitimate. Please cosponsor H.R. 8470 and press for a hearing in Judiciary.