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Rescuing Government Information: The Long View
There is a lot of activity going on to ensure that government information on government servers does not get altered, deleted, or lost during the transition between administrations. As we have pointed out before, this is not a new issue even if the immediacy of the problem is more apparent than ever before. Much of […]
New App Will Aid Data Rescue
A custom-built app will soon make it easy for anyone check government URLs to determine if they have been archived outside of government control and, if not, submit them for archiving. Guerrilla archivists developed an app to save science data from the Trump administration, by Zoë Schlanger, Quartz (February 09, 2017). The article in Quartz […]
Trump Administration Scrubs Healthcare Website
The Washington Examiner reports that ‘The Trump administration has stripped the Obamacare marketplace of positive references to the healthcare law, including removing the words "Affordable Care Act" from federal websites.’ Trump administration strips down Obamacare website, by Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Examiner (2/9/17). The article says that the website healthcare.gov as well as information about […]
EPA Provides Misleading Assurance of Information Preservation
An email sent by the press office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) incorrectly claims that “federal record keeping requirements” ensure that information withdrawn from the EPA website will remain “available to the public.” Doug Ericksen, the head of communications for the Trump transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency, responded to reports of potential […]
Early Warning: Countering Violent Extremism
Reuters reports that the Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism. Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam – sources, By Julia Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke, Reuters (Thu Feb 2, 2017). The […]
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