Compare the immediate savings from cutting "professional services" against the long-term impact on infrastructure planning and environmental standards. Privacy under siege: DOGE's one big, beautiful database
Does the transition from localized, physical tape archives at the GSA or Department of Transportation to a centralized "mega API" increase administrative efficiency or merely facilitate mass surveillance? TRANSIT-DOGE.part2.rar
This paper would use the contents of "Part 2" to analyze the specific types of "wasteful" contracts targeted within the Department of Transportation (DoT). Focusing on the "TRANSIT" prefix, this paper would
2. "Interoperability as Surveillance: Cross-Agency Data Integration in DOGE" Focusing on the "TRANSIT" prefix
How does the "knitting together" of transit-related data create a "master database" for tracking specific populations, such as undocumented immigrants or federal employees in sensitive positions?
Are the terminated contracts, such as the $265k DoT workshop contract, selected based on measurable waste or ideological misalignment?
Focusing on the "TRANSIT" prefix, this paper would look at how transportation data (such as driver's licenses or transit usage) is being merged with IRS, SSA, and DHS records.