{"id":23712,"date":"2026-06-29T03:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/its-dangerous-and-its-going-to-erode-trust-redesign-of-us-government-websites-stokes-surveillance-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T03:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:37:29","slug":"its-dangerous-and-its-going-to-erode-trust-redesign-of-us-government-websites-stokes-surveillance-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/its-dangerous-and-its-going-to-erode-trust-redesign-of-us-government-websites-stokes-surveillance-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s dangerous and it\u2019s going to erode trust\u2019: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites<\/p>\n

An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government\u2019s most sensitive websites \u2013 for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children\u2019s savings \u2013 in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.<\/p>\n

The National Design Studio<\/a> (NDS) was established by a Donald Trump<\/a> executive order last August, and is led by Trump-aligned Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia<\/a> and staffed by Doge veterans.<\/p>\n

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\nThe National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites
\nAn opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government\u2019s most sensitive websites \u2013 for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children\u2019s savings \u2013 in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.
\nThe National Design Studio (NDS) was established by a Donald Trump executive order last August, and is led by Trump-aligned Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia and staffed by Doge veterans. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government\u2019s most sensitive websites \u2013 for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children\u2019s savings \u2013 …<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s dangerous and it\u2019s going to erode trust\u2019: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}