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# Tech Advocates Rally Against Government Data Consolidation
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/tech-advocates-rally-against-government-data-consolidation/
- Published: 2026-10-29T23:17:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-29T23:17:38.000Z
- Description: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is mobilizing around a concrete risk: federal agencies treating personal data collected for specific purposes (tax filing, employment verification, voting registration) as raw material for mass surveillance and targeting.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, regulation/policy, privacy, government data

Source: [Deeplinks](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/fighting-doges-data-grab-effector-3819?ref=adjacent.media)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is mobilizing around a concrete risk: federal agencies treating personal data collected for specific purposes (tax filing, employment verification, voting registration) as raw material for mass surveillance and targeting. The infrastructure for centralized data exploitation already exists within government systems. The fight is whether privacy advocates can establish legal and political barriers before agencies formalize data-sharing agreements that would be nearly impossible to unwind.