highReceipts
passports.gov now redirects visitors off its own domain to travel.state.gov→A federal page sending visitors off its own domain changes who actually serves them.
A public record of who runs the federal web — and what quietly changes when no one is looking.
Daylight reads already-public data — the federal .gov ownership registry, certificate transparency logs, live page source — and keeps a timestamped, source-linked record of it. Reporters can subscribe to a name; anyone can ask who owns a .gov and whether it’s watching them.
1,320domains watched13,187changes recorded6modules livescope: apex .gov
daylight · what we’re seeing
A rotating look at what Daylight has noticed lately, in plain language — each observation drawn straight from public data, with a link to the full, timestamped finding.
notableFloodlight
blm.gov added a tracker (Google Analytics)→New third-party tracking on a federal page is worth a public timestamp.
notableLedger
Department of Agriculture registered a new federal domain: productofusa.gov→Who owns a federal domain is a matter of public record; Daylight logs each new one.
daylight · what it watches
Ledger→
Who owns each federal .gov, and every change to the record.
Lookout→
New subdomains the day their certificate is issued.
Foundry→
Which build vendors quietly serve many agencies at once — and what's staged but not yet launched.
Floodlight→
Is this .gov tracking you? Trackers, session replay, and tracking disguised as the site's own traffic.
Receipts→
What quietly disappeared — a dated, archived removal ledger.
Redtape→
Sites collecting personal data with no published privacy filing.
changes · most recent
System status →notable
privacy notice text changed on https://uspsoig.gov/
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privacy notice text changed on https://usdoj.gov/
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privacy notice text changed on https://ntsb.gov/
notable
privacy notice text changed on https://nsopw.gov/
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privacy notice text changed on https://nist.gov/
notable
privacy notice text changed on https://nicic.gov/
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privacy notice text changed on https://iedison.gov/
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privacy notice text changed on https://healthit.gov/
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privacy notice text changed on https://gao.gov/