Day archives: February 9th, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 8, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 8, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Policy Map – Where to Find Trump’s Disappeared Data

“The administration removed hundreds of federal web pages containing critical information about Americans. Fortunately, it still lives at Philly-based PolicyMap, whose director walks us through what just happened — and why it’s too soon to Last week, President Donald Trump came for our data. Executive orders to eliminate any DEI and climate change-related language from …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Economy, Education, Energy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

“Charlie Warzel and Ian Bogost from The Atlantic talked to four experienced federal-government IT professionals who have all “built, modified, or maintained the kind of technological infrastructure” that Elon Musk’s team of young hackers are attacking. They are beyond concerned about the potential consequences. Based on what has been reported, DOGE representatives have obtained or …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

The Open Energy Data Initiative

As energy, climate and weather datasets and resources  are removed from government websites, there are open source initiatives that remain available and to which organizations may submit data. “The Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). Enabling research, collaboration, and transparency by providing open access to energy data and information. Provides free access to data generated from …

Subjects: Energy, Environmental Law, Legal Research

Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data

“Managed by the Geospatial Management Office, HIFLD curates and provides access to geospatial data on U.S. critical infrastructure. Users can view data and download CSV, KML, and Shapefiles for visualization and application development.” HIFLD houses 400+ data layers. Many have robust summaries and metadata that document the source, update cadence, most recent update, and field …

Subjects: Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Housing, Legal Research, Transportation

Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School

The Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP) provides innovative, rigorous legal analysis to: Administrative Law Clean Air Clean Cars Clean Water Corporate Climate Risk Environmental Justice Methane Emissions Power Sector Trackers – Regulatory Tracker – Tracking the regulatory steps to advance clean energy deployment and environmental protection, and provides an up-to-date and concise summary of …

Subjects: Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research, Transportation

Announcing the Data.gov Archive

Harvard Law School Library: “Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research