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National Design Studio released Rampart, an open-source system that detects and strips personal information from text before it leaves a user's device. It runs entirely in the browser, combining regex-based rules for structured data like Social Security numbers with the MiniLM machine learning model for names and addresses, aiming to complete the process in milliseconds.
A WIRED investigation found that at least two members of the National Design Studio, a White House unit led by Joe Gebbia, are actually employed by a newly formed nonprofit called the America by Design Foundation rather than by the government itself. The foundation appears to be run by James Burnham, a former DOGE member who is now general counsel at Musk's SpaceXAI, though it remains unclear who funds the group or how much money it has.
The Trump administration's new America.gov portal, built as a unified gateway to federal services, is required by executive order to use Login.gov for authentication. Public Login.gov source code shows the National Design Studio has added code generating a long-lived browser identifier that feeds into Login.gov's analytics, even though America.gov's own privacy materials say it avoids advertising cookies and third-party trackers.
The federal government has introduced a chatbot on America.gov, developed by the National Design Studio. The tool is intended to let users interact with a prompt box rather than navigate government websites and processes directly.