Former White House strategist Steve Bannon suggested Wednesday that the government should seize the data of large tech companies and put that information in a “public trust.”

“I think you take [the data] away from the companies. All that data they have is put in a public trust. They can use it. And people can opt in and opt out. That trust is run by an independent board of directors. It just can’t be that [these companies are] the sole proprietors of this data,” Bannon told CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter.