These Heroes Are Rescuing Our Government’s Data – PC Magazine – Medium

"Organizing initially out of concern that the new administration might erase or obscure climate and other environmental data, data rescuers’ worst fears seemed to be coming true when one of the Trump White House’s first actions was to delete climate-change pages from its website. Then the US Department of Agriculture, after removing animal-welfare inspection reports from its website, responded to a National Geographic Freedom of Information Act request with 1,771 pages of entirely redacted material.

Anyone can access the more than 153,000 federal datasets through the central government open-data portal at data.gov. But that’s only a fraction of the data that exist in the nebula of the government bureaucracy, never mind the even smaller fraction that is on a server."