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Trust in government data practices is rapidly deteriorating

Marketplace Tech

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Technology, News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

For years, consumers have worried about how the private sector — namely, big tech — handles their personal data. Now a new survey from the Center for Democracy & Technology suggests a large majority are also concerned about how the federal government uses their data.


Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Elizabeth Laird, director of equity in civic technology at CDT, to learn more.

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not just in the race. You're built to win it. It's hard to find topics of broad consensus in

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American life, but data privacy is one of them.

0:38.3

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

0:41.3

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. For years, consumers have worried about how the private sector, namely big tech,

0:57.7

handles their personal data.

0:59.9

Now, a new survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology suggests a large majority

1:04.8

are also concerned about how the federal government uses their data.

1:09.8

We spoke with Elizabeth Laird,

1:11.6

director of Equity in Civic Technology at CDT to learn more.

1:16.3

So we conducted Nash representative polling,

1:18.6

and what we found is the vast majority of people

1:21.5

still are very concerned about the personal data

1:25.1

that the federal government has about them.

1:29.8

And not only that, it's consistent across demographic groups. So regardless of your political affiliation, your race and ethnicity,

1:35.4

your gender, where you live, all of those groups share high levels of concern. And to put that

1:42.1

in real numbers, three and four people are concerned about what the

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