Literature Guide to Trump-Era Policies and DOGE's Impact on Personal and Public Data
The Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub curates the latest literature on the challenges posed to personal and public data by the Trump Administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Hub tracks the evolving government policies on data access and regulation that directly influence innovation and market competition in the AI space. By consolidating the latest news, research, and policy analyses, we provide our audience with a timely resource to understand how these shifts are reshaping the digital ecosystem.
Led by Michael Moreno and Dr. Susan Aaronson
Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda
By By Ellen Nakashima, Warren P. Strobel and Aaron Schaffer, published in the Washington Post (July 8, 2025)
States sue Trump administration for sharing health data with DHS
By Jude Joffe-Block, published in NPR (June 30, 2025)
Trump’s cuts are making federal data disappear
By Molly Smith, published in Bloomberg (July 10, 2025)
DOGE has special access to sensitive financial data on millions of farmers
Published in NPR (July 11, 2025)
Trump’s U-turn on data privacy
By Dana Nickel, published in Politico (May 19, 2025)
Core DOGE staffers follow Musk out the door
By By Sophia Cai and Daniel Lippman in Politico (July 11, 2025)
Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Illegally Sharing Californians’ Personal Health Data with ICE
Press release by Attorney General Rob Bonta (July 1, 2025)
The Trump administration is making an unprecedented reach for data held by states
By Jude Joffe-Block, published in NPR (June 24, 2025)
DOGE has the keys to sensitive data that could help Elon Musk
By Desmond Butler, Jonathan O’Connell, Hannah Natanson and Aaron Gregg, published in the Washington Post (June 30, 2025)
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
By Jude Joffe-Block , Miles Parks, published in NPR (June 30, 2025)
Judge won’t block DOGE access to sensitive government data
By Miriam Waldvogel, published in The Hill (June 27, 2025)
Privacy under siege: DOGE’s one big, beautiful database
By Stephanie K. Pell, Josie Stewart, and Brooke Tanner, published in Brookings (June 25, 2025)
Top House Democrat asks Microsoft about DOGE code allegedly tied to NLRB data removal
By Stephen Fowler,
Jenna McLaughlin, published in NPR (June 16, 2025)
US Supreme Court allows DOGE broad access to Social Security data
By John Kruzel, published in Reuters (June 6, 2025)
Justices Grant DOGE Access to Social Security Data and Let the Team Shield Records
By Adam Liptak and Abbie VanSickle, published in the New York Times (June 6, 2025)
How DOGE’s push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics
By Hansi Lo Wang, published in NPR (June 4, 2025)
DOGE’s data push could worsen distrust in government surveys
By Miles Parks, Stephen Fowler, Hansi Lo Wang, published in NPR (June 4, 2025)
Palantir: Peter Thiel’s Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants
By Makena Kelly, published in Democracy Now (June 3, 2025)
DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions
By Dan Diamond and Hannah Natanson, published in the Washington Post (June 27, 2025)
DOGE layoffs may have compromised the accuracy of government data
By Alicia Wallace, published in the CNN (June 5, 2025)
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The Digital Trade & Data Governance Hub provide resources, training, events, and evidence-based research to help stakeholders understand data governance and digital trade.
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How should we think about data?
We have little information about what data firms collect, how these firms use or sell our data, or how they mix various data types. If we want these markets to operate more equitably and efficiently, policymakers must focus on the governance of data.
Personal Data
e.g. birthdates
Proprietary or Confidential Business Data
e.g. payrolls
Public Data
Data in the public domain, census data, scientific data, etc
Metadata
Supposedly anonymized personal data
Machine to Machine Communication
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We are a team with a diverse background in international trade, international affairs, economics, public policy, and communication.
