{"id":64343,"date":"2026-06-29T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64343"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:05:36","slug":"the-guardian-its-dangerous-and-its-going-to-erode-trust-redesign-of-us-government-websites-stokes-surveillance-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64343","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: \u2018It\u2019s dangerous and it\u2019s going to erode trust\u2019: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Guardian: \u2018It\u2019s dangerous and it\u2019s going to erode trust\u2019: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears<\/a> by Jason Wilson (“An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk\u2019s ‘department of government efficiency’ (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. The 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. A Guardian investigation has found the office has apparently been developing or redeveloping sensitive federal websites, including those connecting Americans with prescription drugs, children\u2019s savings accounts, passports and voter registration. The investigation corroborates and advances earlier reporting by the Drey Dossier, a YouTube investigative outlet. The NDS built and now operates four public federal websites: ndstudio.gov, trumprx.gov, realfood.gov and trumpaccounts.gov. All four ran commercial visitor-tracking software, configured to evade the privacy tools many web users install, and none carry the public filings federal privacy law requires under laws including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the E-Government Act of 2002.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian: \u2018It\u2019s dangerous and it\u2019s going to erode trust\u2019: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears by Jason Wilson (“An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk\u2019s ‘department of government efficiency’ (Doge) has quietly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64344,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64343\/revisions\/64344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}