The most surprising was the local public transit system. Somehow the local Democratic Party office got the email address I used for signing up for my transit ca

The most surprising was the local public transit system. Somehow the local Democratic Party office got the email address I used for signing up for my transit card. Over time, that email address got into the databases of lots of other left leaning groups, some fund raising, some pushing activism. My guess is that the transit system didn't actually sell the email address to the local Democrats but someone working for the agency passed it along. Having worked for many government agencies, my experience is that access control to PII is very loose.