Data, AI, & Digital Economy
Data, AI, & Digital Economy
Data Privacy & Consumer Protections
Elijah will sponsor a national digital privacy law to stop companies from harvesting and selling your information without your consent. Stronger enforcement against tracking and hidden surveillance is necessary to protect your privacy.
Artificial Intelligence
AI should work for people, not the other way around. Elijah will support legislation that protects workers from displacement, while allowing for further research and innovation. As AI expands, we must work with stakeholders to ensure it benefits the economy while allowing innovation.
DIGITAL ECONOMY & INNOVATION
The global economy is being reshaped by emerging technologies such as blockchain and digital assets. Elijah supports clear, smart regulations that protect consumers while encouraging the innovation that keeps America competitive in the 21st century.
Individuals must have the freedom to explore new financial tools, while government builds the guardrails, not stifle progress and innovation. In Congress, Elijah will fight so that America leads the digital economy with innovation. With the right approach, we can and we will create a fair, open, and modern financial system that works for everyone.
Elijah supports the GENIUS Act as a strong first step, but will push back against regulatory overreach during implementation that could crush small developers and DeFi builders. He opposes efforts to expand the interest/yield prohibition to “rewards”.
Elijah also supports technology-neutral regulation focused on actual financial intermediaries — custodians, brokers, exchanges — not software developers building open-source tools. He supports clear SEC vs. CFTC jurisdictional lines so builders can innovate without legal uncertainty. Furthermore, writing code is not a crime. Elijah will co-sponsor legislation establishing clear safe harbors for software developers.
Elijah Manley opposes a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) on privacy grounds. He believes that this is both a pro-innovation and a civil liberties issue. Elijah also supports “Project Open” proposal to the SEC: a pilot program for issuing equity securities on public blockchains.