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DATE: February 24, 2026 

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David Seligman Announces Strike Force to Take On

Big Tech Surveillance State

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Colorado Will Lead the Nation — Going on Offense Against the Marriage of Tech Billionaires and Corrupt Politicians Who Are Selling Out Our Privacy and Democracy for Profit and Power

 

DENVER, CO - David Seligman, candidate for Colorado Attorney General, today announced plans to create a Surveillance Technologies Strike Force — uniting consumer protection, workers’ rights, antitrust, privacy, and civil rights enforcement to fight back against the marriage of tech billionaires and corrupt politicians who are building the largest surveillance apparatus in human history and selling out our privacy and democracy for profit and power.

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“The wealthiest tech billionaires — Palantir, Flock, and BigTech AI goliaths — are funding corrupt politicians willing to turn over the keys to our democracy, sell out our privacy and our data to the highest bidder, and build a surveillance state,” Seligman said. “This isn’t about safety. It’s about corporate profits and government control. They track our every move to pay us less, charge us more, and keep working people in line — while their billionaire owners get richer. We’re going on offense.”

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The Threat Is Here

Palantir — the wealthiest corporation in Colorado — is building the largest AI surveillance system in history for the Trump administration, merging IRS records, Social Security data, immigration files, and health information into a single database profiling every American. Hundreds of Flock license-plate readers track our every move across Colorado — trips to work, the grocery store, protests, church — feeding data into private corporate databases that can be shared with out-of-state agencies hunting women seeking abortion care and with ICE.

 

Surveillance isn’t just about watching us — it’s about stealing from us. Corporations use AI to secretly score us and decide whether we get a job, housing, or healthcare, with no transparency and no right to challenge. Employers spy on workers to crush wages and organizing drives. Instacart and others manipulate the prices we pay based on hidden data about our habits and vulnerabilities. The same technology that tracks us is weaponized against us.

 

“This is corporate theft disguised as innovation,” Seligman said. “AI is making life-altering decisions — who gets a job, who gets housing, who gets healthcare, how much we pay and what our wages are — and working people have no idea it’s happening and no way to fight back. They’re deciding how much we pay for things and how much we earn for our work. That ends when I’m Attorney General.”

 

Colorado's Strike Force Will Go On Offense

Seligman has spent years using the law to fight surveillance abuses — suing AI companies for secretly scoring job applicants, taking on Amazon for spying on its workers, and challenging algorithmic wages alongside rideshare drivers. As Attorney General, he will build the leading force in the nation to take on the surveillance state, including by investigating:

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• Flock and mass surveillance systems for violating the Fourth Amendment, Colorado privacy laws, abortion and trans-care shield laws, and prohibitions on collaboration with ICE — and for profiteering off the surveillance of working people

• Palantir and government AI databases for building profiles on Coloradans and misusing government data for mass surveillance and corporate profit

• AI surveillance that gates jobs, housing, and healthcare for companies using hidden AI to deny people opportunities with no transparency, no notice, and no right to challenge

• Corporate surveillance prices and wages for using our own data to charge us more and pay us less, in violation of consumer, labor, privacy, and antitrust laws

• Workplace surveillance used to crush workers and unions for employers using AI monitoring and surveillance to intimidate workers, retaliate against organizers, and undermine collective bargaining rights

 

“We’ll use every tool in the Attorney General’s office — antitrust, consumer protection, privacy, civil rights, labor law,” Seligman said. “We won’t be afraid to go after anyone spying on us for profit and power — whether it’s Palantir building surveillance infrastructure for the Trump administration, law enforcement using mass surveillance in violation of law, or corporations using AI to steal from us.”

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Colorado Will Lead the Country

“The Trump administration is selling us out so the billionaires who funded their campaigns can have more control — and become trillionaires doing it,” Seligman said. “State attorneys general will need to protect us. And when I’m Colorado AG, we will lead that fight nationally — because working people deserve privacy and dignity, not a surveillance state that tracks their every move to charge them more and pay them less.”

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“Coloradans value our privacy and we despise surveillance — whether from a tech billionaire or a corrupt politician. We’ll lead the charge in fighting back.” 

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David Seligman is one of the country’s leading workers’ rights, consumer rights, and antimonopoly lawyers. He is the Executive Director of Towards Justice, a nationally recognized non-profit legal and labor rights organization based in Denver. He fights for regular people in courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He helps working Coloradans and small businesses take on powerful corporations and the Trump Administration—and he’s won. He stands up for nurses, rideshare drivers, meatpackers, Amazon workers, veterans, teachers, federal employees, grocery workers, renters buried in junk fees to the biggest landlords in the country, and working families drowning in medical debt to massive hospital systems. He has returned more than 70 million dollars to working people and forced powerful corporations to play by the rules in Colorado and across the country. 

 

Prior to his work at Towards Justice, David was an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, where he helped consumers buried in debt and forced to give up their rights in the fine print. David lives in east Denver with his wife and three daughters, just a few miles from where he grew up. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and served as the Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review before clerking for appellate and trial level federal judges.

 

For more information about David Seligman’s campaign, visit https://seligmanforag.com

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