By: Alex Joel, Senior Project Director and Marina Thornhill, Research Assistant In the 1970s, a series of scandals involving abuse of government power gripped Washington, D.C. In the wake of Watergate, Senator Sam Ervin, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led efforts to protect Americans’ privacy, culminating in the enactment of the Privacy Act of … Continue reading The Department of Government Efficiency and the Privacy Act of 1974