Canadian population is racing to save data in Cross Trump

The invitation to Angela Rasmussen came out of Azraq and asked a disturbing question. If you hear the rumors that the main data groups will be removed from the centers of diseases control and prevention sites the next day?

It is something I think Rasmussen can never happen.

“It has never been thought about before the center of diseases control has already started deleting some important public health data groups,” said a virus at the University of Saaskashwan University. “This data is really important to everyone’s health – not only in the United States but all over the world.”

The next day, January 31, Rasmussen started seeing the data disappearing. I knew that she needed to take action.

Rasmussen communicate with a vital vital friend, who knew how to maintain data and make backup copies of web sites. With others, hurry to keep the data if deleted.

“We started archiving the entire CDC site,” Rasmussen said.

Since then, Rasmussen and her colleague have collaborated with others such as the American health care data analyst Charles Gaba and turned their attention to other sites with health data, maintaining information from departments and agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Medicare & Medicaid services.

Rasmussen said that the publication of some studies, like three, would shed light on H5N1 bird influenza, it seems to be also affected by the change of management.

Rasmussen is just one of the many Canadian population who have joined what has become an international effort to archive the guerrilla warfare to maintain copies of the US government’s web pages and the data taken in a non -communication mode by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

Before New York Times Thousands of pages that were dropped in the days that followed Trump’s inauguration are partly as a result of Trump’s executive order targeting diversity initiatives.

Among the pages witnessed by observers, those that monitor HIV infections, deal with health risks for young people and contain census data, education data and information about subsidized reproductive techniques. A website containing the names of those accused of the attack on January 6, 2021 was also removed.

Comparison Usdata.gov Home on January 17, before the opening of Trump, and Wednesday, 522 lower data sets display.

Some commentators on social media are similar to disappeared data for burning burning in the 1930s.

In response to a question about the changes on the website of the Disease Control Center, the agency said it is part of the changes in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS).

“All changes on web sites/HHS and HHS department manuscripts correspond to President Trump’s executive orders on January 20,” said Rosa Norman, chief press officer, in an email response.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has yet to respond to questions from CBC News.

It is not known whether data is still on government servers.

Those who sprinkle the data argue that their price has been paid with US tax dollars and they must be in the public sphere, and can be accessed for researchers and every person.

The government argued that deletions are not necessarily final and that information can be accessed via the Internet Archive.

Tuesday, an American federal judge It gave a temporary orderCDC and FDA guidance to restore general information on its websites, while the courts hear a lawsuit challenges the Trump administration’s decision to remove it.

Internet archives sometimes miss data

Brewster Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archives (IA), which crawls on the web and archives. Its non -profit organization is part of the Archive Archive project at the end of the term of the United States government at the end of each administration since 2004 and launched the Democratic Library project, a set of government research and publications from all over the world.

However, the crawl of the Internet archive does not always pick up data and databases.

Those who work to maintain US government data groups download them, and in many cases, they store them with the help of the Internet archive.

“The efforts of these cooperating entities have resulted in a lot, as the data is archived this time more than other times,” Kahley said. “I think this is an indication that people are very excited to try to make sure to maintain the entire government record.”

Kahli has so far said that the US government has not followed government data stored by the Internet archive.

“That will be very unusual. Nothing happened like this,” Kahli said.

However, if this occurs, the American Data Center in British Columbia is supported by Canada Internet archive and vice versa. Kahal said that the Democratic Library project is also in Canada.

“This is what the libraries do. We are there to keep a record of what happened – this is a role we play,” said Kahal. “Canada is always present to help in the US archive of the United States.”

At Gilf University, Professor Eric Nester is working with the EDGI Governance Initiative to maintain data from the Environmental Protection Agency – especially with regard to climate change and environmental justice.

“This data is of great importance with regard to the ability to track environmental changes, for example, what are the most burden places on pollution in the United States, where there is pollution, where there are climate risk.” “It is clear that this is very important for the Americans, but it has a real connection with Canadians as well.”

For example, some Canadian cities towards the wind of American factories.

“Access to what will come out of Smokestacks is also important to us.”

NOST said he knows at least three other people in Canada who also archive environmental data. He said that his group had given the priorities of 60 data or tool Ejscreen EPA.

NOST said that his group also finds that some sites are currently banned for anyone who arrives from outside the United States, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Index Map.

Matt Price, associate professor at the University of Toronto, who is also working with Edgi, says that maintaining data is important because the United States is the largest scientific power in the world.

“We must take care of American data because the US federal government was the virtual guardian of large quantities of data the whole world needs,” said Price.

Jessica Maher is an employee of her headquarters in Toronto at the Environmental Policy Innovation Center that helps organize different groups trying to archive environmental data for the US government. She says that the data and tools that are removed affect research that teach politics to improve the quality of life.

Maher said: “Without these tools, you cannot obtain an enlightened understanding of those who suffer and then provide them with funding or programs that will improve their lives.”