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Tracking U.S. government data removed from the Internet during the Trump administration

February 24, 2017 By GISuser

Are you concerned about data vanishing from the Internet? Now you can report and help tack datasets that are vanishing. The sunlight foudnation has a community resource where you can report data that you notice has vanished.

2017-02-24 11_16_30-Tracking U.S. government data removed from the Internet during the Trump adminis

From the Sunlight foundation:

Prior to the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Sunlight joined other transparency advocates in expressing concern about the future of open government data in the United States. We highlighted the ways an administration could alter government data that fell short of outright removal, from defunding collection to limiting access to altering data sets. Taking open government data offline entirely was the most extreme action we anticipated. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s now begun happening. As a result, Sunlight and our open government allies have begun tracking confirmed news reports of the Trump administration removing open government data from the Internet and links to where that data has been archived by civil society in the spreadsheet provided

See details and report data HERE

help archive federal open data, learn how Data Refuge works and pitch in

Filed Under: Around the Web, DATA, Top Press Tagged With: opendata

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