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Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Sep 11

@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.”

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Sep 11

@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.”

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Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · Sep 2

Carl!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Aug 30

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

EFF Awards 2025

For over 30 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. The EFF Awards celebrate the

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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · Aug 22

Erie has a few things to say.

fedscoop.com/america-by-d...

Design without privacy is just a cover-up: USDS co-founder's take on Trump's EO

A former government technologist lays out a blueprint for how the White House’s federal web design order could actually work.

fedscoop.com

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EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · Aug 22

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...

Design without privacy is just a cover-up: USDS co-founder's take on Trump's EO

A former government technologist lays out a blueprint for how the White House’s federal web design order could actually work.

fedscoop.com

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Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

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Merici @merici.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

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DGCassidy @dgcassidy.bsky.social · Apr 30

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!

The former CFPB official - who was invited to testify at the hearing by subcommittee Democrats - said she believes "deeply" in the promise of using better IT to improve government efficiency.
"Done right, it can save money, reduce fraud, and make government work better for everyone," Meyer said, adding, "I've seen it happen."
"But what's happening right now under DOGE is not modernization," she said. "It's chaos. And it's chaos with a human cost. When DOGE arrived at my agency, they didn't modernize anything. Instead, they broke the consumer complaint system."
Meyer also claimed that "DOGE is centralizing access to some of the most sensitive data the government holds - Social Security records, disability claims, even data tied to national security - without a clear security plan, proper oversight, and I question the basic vetting of Al tools they're using to analyze it."
"Let me be clear: this is not modernization," she said, asserting, "It's a heist."
"DOGE is burning the house down and calling it a renovation," Meyer said. "This path is making government less efficient, less secure, and less capable of protecting the people it's supposed to serve."
"The cheapest, fastest, and most effective way to modernize IT in the federal government is to get technical people into government, and then to empower the people who've taken an oath to serve," Meyer said. "The most expensive, slowest, and least effective way is to lose al of your technical talent and sloppily outsource it once you realize what you have done."

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Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social · Apr 15

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."

Fintech and Techno-Solutionism

Silicon Valley-style technological innovation is ill-suited to addressing complex problems like financial inclusion, concentrated market power, and privacy harm

papers.ssrn.com

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Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social · Apr 15

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."

Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · Apr 11

Politico: What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn’t?

Me: Enforcing the law.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

cc Andrew Ferguson

5 questions for Erie Meyer

www.politico.com

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Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Apr 14

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.”

Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · Apr 11

Politico: What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn’t?

Me: Enforcing the law.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

cc Andrew Ferguson

5 questions for Erie Meyer

www.politico.com

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Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · Apr 11

Politico: What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn’t?

Me: Enforcing the law.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

cc Andrew Ferguson

5 questions for Erie Meyer

www.politico.com

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Apr 1

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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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Apr 1

File your taxes using IRS Direct File, a free, secure, accurate and accessible product from the IRS. It is available in 25 states and allows you to import your tax information, like your W-2, directly from the IRS.

Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.

DirectFile.irs.gov

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Consumer Federation of America @consumerfed.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨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

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Erin Witte @erinwitte-cfa.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨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

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · Mar 11

"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_...

Fired CFPB chief says Musk may have another goal for gutting the agency

YouTube video by CNN

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · Mar 10

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

Hello My Name is [EmployeeFirstName] Mug

100% of proceeds benefit illegally fired CFPB union members.

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Jason G @jasongregorymusic.bsky.social · Mar 11

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.

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · Mar 8

“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

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The Verge @theverge.com · Mar 4

CFPB lets banks off the hook and drops Zelle lawsuit

The US is no longer suing JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo over improper fraud safeguards.

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Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · Mar 8

There’s already been a merch drop: cfpbunion.shop/products/dua...

Adam Martinez's Dual Hat

100% of proceeds benefit illegally fired CFPB union members.

cfpbunion.shop

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