Free government data lowers the cost of academic research, but it can also divert talented people from more productive work and fuel low-value academic publication cycles.

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 ...

People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it. Rural residents use groundwater level data from the U.S. geological survey’s National Water Information System to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A battle is being waged in the quiet corners of government websites and data repositories. Essential public records are disappearing and, with them, Americans’ ability to hold those in power ...

Security experts are hugely nervous about the government's latest database plans, and have pointed out numerous grave security concerns over two of its proposed schemes. The Home Office announced in ...

The Department of Government Efficiency is reportedly building a large cross-agency government database of potentially sensitive information, sparking new concerns from lawmakers about the security of ...

Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available. By Austyn Gaffney Amid the torrent of ...