Article originally appeared on thefederalist.com.
What are your pronouns? Your sex? Your race and sexual orientation? Are you physically or mentally disabled? The Philadelphia Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity wants to know these to “better serve the residents of Philadelphia.”
These “optional demographic questions” are attached to the form you must fill out if you want to take the city’s Civic Engagement Academy Learning Series class titled, “Leading a Community Meeting.” It promises to teach how to “host a successful meeting and manage conflict.” The bottom of the form indicates that it is “powered by NGP VAN.”
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NGP-VAN is “the leading technology provider to Democratic and progressive political campaigns and organizations, nonprofits, municipalities, and other groups,” according to its website. Philadelphia has been collecting invasively personal information about its citizens for years through NGP-VAN, an arrangement which Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow …
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