Elizabeth Laird

So we conducted national representative polling, and what we found is the vast majority of people still are very concerned about the personal data that the federal government has about them.

And not only that, it's consistent across demographic groups.

So regardless of your political affiliation, your race and ethnicity, your gender, where you live, all of those groups share high levels of concern.

And to put that in real numbers, three in four people are concerned about what the federal government knows about them.

I agree.

And I have to say, you know, we weren't sure that's what we would find.

I think we were very open to the possibility that people have resigned themselves and they're so used to getting a notification every other week that organization takes their privacy seriously.

And we are unfortunately notifying you that your data has been breached.

And that's just all we found.

We found that concern levels still are quite high.

And we asked, do you agree that the government has a lot of data about you and there's nothing you can do about it?

And the majority of people agreed with that, too.

And so I think for for policymakers and practitioners.

The ingredients of a pretty significant backlash are there and that concern levels are very high.

And the American people feel helpless that there's nothing that they can do about it.

We'll be right back.

The one that I've been thinking about a lot, and it's in part because of my background working in state government, we spend so much time thinking about how do we remove barriers so that people who are eligible for benefits and services access them.

And those can be lifesaving benefits.

They can be related to someone's education or their housing or their health, their nutrition.

Would that translate into a jargony term, a chilling effect?