Data disruptions could cause big issues in both the public and private sectors. What happens when one of the world's largest repositories of free information becomes unreliable? That dire situation ...

A number of organizations, including Harvard University, have begun taking steps to preserve data files and other information as the Trump administration continues its sweeping purge of federal ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

Days after President Donald Trump took office again in January, thousands of government pages with critical data were taken down as agencies rushed to comply with executive orders targeting diversity, ...

Staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations by combining sensitive data from across the federal ...

To a certain brand of policy wonk, January 31, 2025, is a day that will live in infamy. It had been nearly two weeks since President Donald Trump took office for the second time—days that passed in a ...

Meteorological data collected by some weather balloons has been halted. Statistics for HIV among transgender people were scrubbed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. And ...

In a data-driven world, pauses in government economic reporting do more than inconvenient economists, they create dangerous blind spots for investors, policymakers, and business leaders. When ...

Operatives from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented ...

Here’s an open secret: the U.S. government collects vast amounts of data on every person living in the country. If you bank, use transportation, walk outside your home, pay taxes, or do any regulated ...

Elon Musk's team within the Trump administration has sought sweeping access to databases that store personal information on millions and millions of Americans. The data collected and maintained by the ...

At the start of December, Ukrainians suddenly found themselves unable to sell cars, file legal claims, or register marriages through the state's recently digitized government registries. Cybersecurity ...