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Investigate the National Design Studio's Illegal Data Collection and Privacy Violations

To: Sen. Hyde-Smith, Sen. Wicker, Rep. Guest

From: A verified voter in Starkville, MS

May 27

Demand a full investigation into the National Design Studio (NDS), a White House office created by Executive Order 14338 on August 21, 2025, and bring this to your colleagues' attention immediately. The NDS is staffed entirely through Section 3161 temporary advisory appointments — meaning these contractors file no financial disclosures, appear on no salary reports, and answer to no inspector general. This is the same playbook used by DOGE, now applied to systematically moving federal services like drug pricing, voter registration, passports, and federal login onto White House-controlled infrastructure. The privacy violations are not theoretical. Federal websites built by the NDS — including TrumpRx.gov, RealFood.gov, and TrumpAccounts.gov — embed PostHog analytics that record mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes without anonymizing IP addresses. TrumpRx's own privacy policy contradicts itself on whether it collects health information. As of May 26, 2026, a Federal Register search for "National Design Studio" returns zero Privacy Impact Assessments and zero System of Records Notices — both required by the E-Government Act of 2002 and OMB Circular A-130. Roughly 40 undisclosed federal subdomains, including a staging version of vote.gov, all route through a single private Cloudflare account tied to NDS director Joe Gebbia personally. Congress created the Election Assistance Commission specifically to keep voter infrastructure out of a sitting president's hands. The NDS is building around that firewall in plain sight. Every colleague you brief on this is one more voice demanding accountability before the Presidential Records Act seals these records until 2040.

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