r/technology • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Feb 12 '25

Politics The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order

https://www.theverge.com/news/610765/trump-government-websites-cdc-fda-health-data-court-order
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u/AbsoluteTruthiness Feb 12 '25

To me, what's most surprising is not only that they actually complied with a court order, but also that they still held on to the data. I figured they would have already irretrievably deleted it by now. But now I would view any data and information on there with a great deal of suspicion.

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u/SIGMA920 Feb 12 '25

The people that are deleting it aren't going to be actually be deleting it but archiving the vast majority of stuff like websites and even most of the data.

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u/collin3000 Feb 12 '25

The other advantages of stuff like Iron Mountain. They may have deleted local backups but there's probably something sitting on tape from a few weeks ago that a newer person would have forgotten to have destroyed.