#dataremoval

2025-11-21

ZDNet: I put 2025’s leading data-removal services to the test, and there was a clear winner. “Incogni and DeleteMe are data removal services that can help you lock down your data, but they specialize in different areas. Read on to discover which service will suit you best.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/21/zdnet-i-put-2025s-leading-data-removal-services-to-the-test-and-there-was-a-clear-winner/

2025-08-12

Tom’s Hardware: AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’. “A software engineer and developer, who previously accused Amazon Web Services (AWS) of a ‘digital execution,’ has shared the good news that his data has now been restored. What made this impossible task possible was ‘one human being inside AWS [who] decided to give a damn,’ according to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/12/toms-hardware-aws-users-data-returned-because-one-human-being-inside-aws-decided-to-give-a-damn/

2025-07-19

The Conversation: Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with global implications. “As researchers focused on data management (Kristi) and behavioural sciences (Albert) and whose work tackles the significance of research with open access data, we have been concerned about how the data sets that scholars around the world rely on have been vanishing from U.S. government […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/the-conversation-vanishing-data-in-the-u-s-undermines-good-public-policy-with-global-implications/

2025-07-14

NextGov: Inside efforts to capture federal data after ‘the big takedown’. “[Denice] Ross, who’s now a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, is one of the people behind America’s Data Index, an attempt to get a better view of changes across the government data ecosystem.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/nextgov-inside-efforts-to-capture-federal-data-after-the-big-takedown/

2025-06-25

Data Rescue Project: Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal. “The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. … The Portal makes it easy to discover rescued datasets by government offices sharing the data, topic, and more.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/25/data-rescue-project-data-rescue-project-launches-new-portal/

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2025-06-15
2025-06-15

The Journalist’s Resource: When health data disappears: 8 tips for finding what’s hidden from public view . “As the U.S. government continues to remove data and make radical changes to its websites, reporters are encountering health data that’s incomplete, altered or missing entirely. At the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference in Los Angeles on May 30, a panel of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/when-health-data-disappears-8-tips-for-finding-whats-hidden-from-public-view-the-journalists-resource/

2025-05-29

UChicago Library: UChicago Data Mirror website launched to protect access to public datasets. “In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites, the DSI and the University of Chicago Library have partnered to launch the UChicago Data Mirror website to protect access to at-risk datasets. The website will preserve backups of these resources within UChicago’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/uchicago-library-uchicago-data-mirror-website-launched-to-protect-access-to-public-datasets/

2024-08-11

I'm trying to remember a website where you can see guides on how to delete your personal information from different services online.
I'm sure it has been shared here many times before. Anybody know what I could mean?

PS: I was thinking about justdeleteme.xyz, but apparently remembered it a bit wrong.
justgetmydata.com and justwhatsthedata.github.io are also interesting.

#privacy #DataRemoval #PersonalData #RightToBeForgotten #GDPR

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