White House DOGE-aligned web projects send citizen data to third-party analytics firm
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Cynthia B Brumfield
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Summary
A White House digital modernization effort, aligned with DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) and Elon Musk, has been found to include numerous federal web projects — including a staging version of Vote.gov — that funnel visitor data to an outside analytics firm. The projects are described as bifurcated from their owning agencies and span various areas of citizen interest, raising privacy and oversight concerns.
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The projects are bifurcated from the agencies that own them and extend to a wide variety of areas of citizen interest.
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