DOGE is taking agency data in an effort to compile a master database…
Data Sharing
Sharing is caring.
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Ignoring citizens’ privacy to build a centralized database and track people
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Halt of data collection that measures American society
As data provides ways to more accurately estimate how things are going, the…
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DOGE possibly extracted data from National Labor Relations Board, whistleblower discloses
DOGE engineers were at the NLRB for a week but didn’t specify what…
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IRS agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE
For Associated Press, Fatima Hussein reports:
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23andMe files for bankruptcy
23andMe, the business predicated on people sending cheek swabs to have their DNA…
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Instead of lying with data, just delete it altogether
Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies…
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USDA sued for removing climate data
Farming and environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing…
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DOGE wants access to IRS taxpayer data
For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report:
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Value of government data
While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…
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Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov
The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab is archiving Data.gov and making the…
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Download CDC data through Internet Archive
The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was…
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Geographic boundary data and microdata from Census Bureau is offline
As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide…
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Health and climate data purge
For The Verge, Justine Calma reports on the recent takedowns. Some groups have…
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About 8,000 U.S. government pages taken down
The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of…
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Checklist for federal data backups
In preparation for days like this, MIT Libraries has a guide for making…
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Preserving government data before it disappears completely
Groups at universities and research labs are forming to preserve data. Naseem Miller…
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Data.cdc.gov goes offline
As of this evening on January 31, 2025, the data portal for the…
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Military location data that anyone can buy legally
For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…
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23andMe sinking
For BBC, Zoe Kleinman reports:
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Decline in data for AI bots to scrape
The Data Provenance Initiative audited 14,000 web domains to see how sites currently…