Wonderful news for NYC. Our new CTO, Lisa Gelobter, is a brilliant technologist and a deeply principled leader who has spent her career ensuring technology serves people, not the other way around. Mayor Mamdani continues to assemble a remarkable team. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
12.02.2026 20:27 — 👍 176 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 1This is excellent news. Lisa is a perfect person to lead the city's technical direction. (More on her pioneering history here: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n... )
11.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 100 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 2😘😘😘😘
10.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She’s so, so good! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
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Mamdani has named Lisa Gelobter as the city's new CTO, a great choice on many levels. She cares about the city and about New Yorkers, she has strong technical chops *and* a strong focus on equity, and she knows how to get things done
If you don't know her, fix that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ge...
Happy birthday, dad. www.newcomercolumbus.com/obituaries/t...
31.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On 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...
14.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0It was an honor to share messages like this from John Doe government tech workers fighting back against data abuses. Thank you, @eff.org!
11.09.2025 15:28 — 👍 61 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0😭😭😭
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@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.”
11.09.2025 03:20 — 👍 83 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 4Carl!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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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.
19.06.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0DOGE employees are lieutenants of Musk, not the President. This is an insider threat to keep an eye on.
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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."
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!
30.04.2025 15:02 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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."
😭🇺🇸❤️
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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
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🚨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...
10.03.2025 10:27 — 👍 147 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 4The 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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