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Cory Booker

Summary

Cory Booker is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey who has introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act and co-sponsored bipartisan surveillance and civil-liberties reforms including the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act.

Verified Facts

• U.S. Senator from New Jersey.¹
• Introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act.¹
• The bill would prohibit advertising networks from using personal data for targeted ads, with limited location targeting exceptions.¹
• The bill allows contextual advertising based on the content a user is engaging with.¹
• Booker described surveillance advertising as a predatory and invasive practice.¹
• Co-sponsored the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act with Wyden and Paul.²
• The 117th Congress introduced bill text lists Booker among the original Senate co-sponsors.³

Key Legislation

• Banning Surveillance Advertising Act: Prohibits targeted advertising based on personal data and data-broker purchases while preserving contextual advertising.
• Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act (co-sponsor): Joint legislation with Wyden and Paul to prevent warrantless government purchase of Americans' personal data from data brokers.

Historical Context

Booker has worked across party lines on civil-liberties issues, including surveillance reform with Rand Paul and privacy protections against commercial data exploitation. His surveillance advertising bill targets the business model behind much of the modern ad-supported internet.

Relevance to Open Source and Software Companies

Limits on surveillance advertising affect ad-supported platforms, analytics vendors, and any software company that monetizes user behavior data. Booker's work on data-broker restrictions aligns with broader efforts to reduce warrantless access to commercially collected data that software products generate.

Relationships

• PERSON-CORY-BOOKER cites SRC-BOOKER-SURVEILLANCE-ADVERTISING.
• PERSON-CORY-BOOKER cites SRC-WYDEN-FOURTH-AMENDMENT-NOT-FOR-SALE.
• PERSON-CORY-BOOKER cites SRC-FOURTH-AMENDMENT-NOT-FOR-SALE-GOVINFO.

Sources

1. SRC-BOOKER-SURVEILLANCE-ADVERTISING: Booker Announces Introduction of Bill to Ban Surveillance Advertising.
2. SRC-WYDEN-FOURTH-AMENDMENT-NOT-FOR-SALE: Wyden, Paul and Bipartisan Senators Reintroduce the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act.
3. SRC-FOURTH-AMENDMENT-NOT-FOR-SALE-GOVINFO: S. 1265, Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act of 2021 (117th Congress).

Research Debt

• Add Booker office source confirming current committee assignments.
• Document Booker's broader technology and privacy positions beyond surveillance advertising.

Document metadata

• Last verified: 2026-07-19

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1. SRC-BOOKER-SURVEILLANCE-ADVERTISING — Booker Announces Introduction of Bill to Ban Surveillance Advertising. Official Senate press release. ↩↩↩↩↩

2. SRC-WYDEN-FOURTH-AMENDMENT-NOT-FOR-SALE — Wyden, Paul and Bipartisan Senators Reintroduce the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act. Official Senate press release. ↩

3. SRC-FOURTH-AMENDMENT-NOT-FOR-SALE-GOVINFO — S. 1265, Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act of 2021 (117th Congress). Official introduced bill text via GovInfo. ↩