It appears the US government has deliberately made it more difficult for the public and investigative journalists to track its purchases of sensitive surveillance technology. The previous, albeit dated, online portal, FPDS.gov, served as a crucial and remarkably effective tool for transparency, allowing users to identify a wide array of government contracts, including those for phone hacking devices, vast amounts of location data, and sophisticated software like Palantir installations.
This invaluable resource has now been replaced by SAM.gov, a new platform that many find significantly less functional and user-friendly. According to experts like Dave Maass from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, while FPDS.gov may have had a basic design, its straightforward interface was highly robust and essential for quickly discerning government spending on everything from spy tools to other operational needs. It was the go-to site for researchers and journalists to understand who was selling what to the government and how these deals were structured. The shift to SAM.gov has, by all accounts, made it substantially harder to perform these vital oversight functions.
The move has raised concerns about a deliberate effort to obscure the details of government expenditure on powerful surveillance capabilities, potentially hindering public scrutiny and accountability. Investigative journalists and watchdog groups relied heavily on FPDS.gov to uncover critical information about government contracts, and its diminished successor is seen as a significant setback for transparency in this sensitive area.
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