How a Referendum Could Guard Your Privacy

What if you had the Power to Stop Big Tech from Selling You Out?

Your data is collected, sold, and manipulated every single day– and most of it happens without your knowledge or consent.

You’ve felt the effects:

• Loan offers from companies you’ve never applied to
• Spam calls and texts
• Ads that follow you from site to site
• Algorithms pushing you deeper into political echo chambers

And when something worse happens – like a loan or credit card in your name you never took out, or your private data leaked in a breach- who pays the price?

You do.

Not the companies. Not the lobbyists. Not the government.

And to make it worse, YOU end up paying again – signing up for credit monitoring and identity protection services just to shield yourself from the damage they created.

Tech companies hold more information about you than your own government ever has. And yet… you have no meaningful way to stop it.

Why Digital Privacy Matters

Every day your search history, location data, credit cards, shopping habits, conversations, biometric data (and more) are gathered, analyzed, and sold.

The laws that could protect you? Are weak, outdated, and written to favor the industry – because Congress is tangled in lobbying money and tech influence.

That is where a federal referendum comes in.

What a Federal Referendum Could Do

Imaging putting digital rights on the ballot. Imagine the people – not the corporate lobbyists – writing the rules.

We could require:

• Opt-in consent before data collection
• Bans on selling sensitive personal data
• Clear, human-readable privacy statements
• Strong penalties for misuse, leaks, or exploitation
• Protection for biometric, financial, and health data

You – not Congress – would set the terms of your digital life.

Why Congress Hasn’t Fixed It

Big tech spends millions to make sure they don’t.

Lobbyists flood the system with money and influence, keeping real change off the table while citizens are left without a voice.

Your data is yours. It’s time we started acting like it.

What’s Next?

In our next post we’ll talk about what happens when local leaders are silenced and why a direct path to the people is more important than ever.