Happy birthday, dad. www.newcomercolumbus.com/obituaries/t...

On Lawfare Daily, @jshermcyber.bsky.social spoke to @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social and @erie.bsky.social about how state enforcers and regulators can better work with technologists, what technologists are suited to help with, and what roles technologists can play. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

It was an honor to share messages like this from John Doe government tech workers fighting back against data abuses. Thank you, @eff.org!

@Erie.bsky.social accepting the EFF Award: “Speaking up is hard and it's scary. But it will only get harder and scarier from here. The best time to do it was yesterday. The second-best time is today. These are not choices we will always have.”

Let's put a spotlight on our EFF Awards winners! ✨ @erie.bsky.social has been busy filing federal court declarations to protect American's data and warning Congress about 'DOGE burning the house down'. Don't miss her at the EFF Awards on Sept 10 in San Francisco! eff.org/effawards

Erie has a few things to say. fedscoop.com/america-by-d...

Great piece in @fedscoop.bsky.social by @erie.bsky.social “… design is meaningless without trust. […] Americans will not want to use even the most elegant services if they don’t trust the government to protect their data.” fedscoop.com/america-by-d...

Anyone else here play the theremin? I built my last one but am thinking of upgrading.

DOGE employees are lieutenants of Musk, not the President. This is an insider threat to keep an eye on.

Powerful testimony yesterday from @erie.bsky.social, formerly of the US Digital Service, to the House Oversight Committee on Cyber, on the topic of IT modernization. "This is not modernization. It's a heist." WELL SAID!

I stress the same point in papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... "refusing to apply the law to a technology until after it is fully developed and entrenched – and then crafting accommodative laws that treat the extant incarnation of technology-based business models as inevitable – is a choice."

I loved this interview with @erie.bsky.social "I think Americans give up a lot of power if we agree with the premise that new technology requires new rules of the road."

Loved this interview with my former colleague, Erie Meyer, the soul of the CFPB Q: What book most shaped your conception of the future? A: I would say Shirley Chisholm’s autobiography “Unbought and Unbossed"...She has a saying, “I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.”

Politico: What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn’t? Me: Enforcing the law. www.politico.com/newsletters/... cc Andrew Ferguson

BTW, DOGE wants to end this program, created by USDS. They say there aren't enough users. Let's prove DOGE wrong it's a great program that simplified filing your taxes

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🚨In 2023 fraudsters stole over $390M from Americans through payment apps. This number has increased by over 200% since then, but Republicans are trying to prevent the #CFPB from supervising big tech digital apps. Congress must vote NO on S.J.Res.28 @erinwitte-cfa.bsky.social @erie.bsky.social

🚨Last year, fraudsters stole over $390 million from Americans via digital payment apps. That is a 200% increase from just a few years ago. 📈 We need a #CFPB that can keep up with innovative scammers and rein in big tech app providers. VOTE NO on SJ Res 28. @erie.bsky.social @savecfpb.bsky.social

"Google Pay, Apple Pay & now X Money wants to be able to know everything you're buying, how much you're paying for it and what were you thinking about at the time...People have been wondering, why are they so fixated with this small agency like the CFPB?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdr_...

Ha, the CFPB union is selling merch for the botched mail merge that was used to lay-off probationary employees cfpbunion.shop/products/hel...

The CFPB made WellsFargo send me a refund for 3K in 2022 for a service they had charged me for since 2007 that was bogus. WellsFargo wouldn’t have refunded me themselves. The CFPB made them do it. We need them around.

“The CFPB is in the hands of the Trump administration and they’ve decided to pick the pocket of the American public. The only people who benefit from a frozen CFPB are financial scammers and thieves.” —@alexisgoldstein.bsky.social, NTEU 335 member

CFPB lets banks off the hook and drops Zelle lawsuit

At #NICAR25 the CFPB’s Chief Technologist @erie.bsky.social says the agency is still here and can only be ended by an act of Congress, despite her team being recently fired. The DOGE team has “god mode” access to all CFPB complaint data. “It's a 5 alarm fire for me that they have this data.”

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

“Our job is pretty simple: We’re here to help everyday people when they’ve been cheated, defrauded, or stolen from by big banks and corporations.” - Illegally fired CFPB tech expert, Nick Hand thephiladelphiacitizen-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thephila...

Lesley Stahl reports on President Trump’s efforts to halt the work and cut the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an enforcement agency that was created in response to the 2008 financial crisis. 60 Minutes, Sunday.

We have produced a worksheet for fired feds with federal student loans to help you navigate a financially stressful time! (Almost like that's our day job, which we are being unfairly forbidden from doing! But we digress...) Here's the link!

Seth Meyers and Senator Elizabeth Warren on why Elon Musk could be trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

This is not good.

📢 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is under attack. Trump and Big Tech friends don’t like the CFPB and its work to protect consumers and their rights so they're trying to take it down. Take action now to help save it fftf.link/cfpb

Remember those technologists I hired using an authority designed to bring private sector tech talent to gov, legally? They were looking into big tech. Trump just fired them. All of them. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…