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Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

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206 points rbanffy | 6 comments | 02 Apr 25 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 1.463s | source | bottom
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Damogran6 ◴[02 Apr 25 18:29 UTC] No.43559787[source]▶
Hypothetically: -Government leader says they're nuking data -Mad rush to back up data through other means -Government leader declares they've 'transferred the cost of maintaining data out of government, thus making for a smaller, more efficient, government'

I hate everything about this.

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1. riku_iki ◴[02 Apr 25 20:25 UTC] No.43561102[source]▶
In general it makes sense to shift this part to business, if data is valuable, there will be market and services. Probably problem is how fast they nuked without grace period.
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2. tehjoker ◴[02 Apr 25 22:44 UTC] No.43562614[source]▶
im okay with data being hosted for free or cheap by the government and not being price gouged for access to public data
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3. riku_iki ◴[02 Apr 25 23:55 UTC] No.43563221[source]▶
I think many people are very not Ok how government handles data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237352
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4. forgetfreeman ◴[03 Apr 25 00:22 UTC] No.43563394{3}[source]▶
Are these same people proposing private industry would do a better job? https://privacybee.com/blog/these-are-the-largest-data-broke...
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5. riku_iki ◴[03 Apr 25 00:33 UTC] No.43563441{4}[source]▶
Government is also regularly being hacked
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6. tehjoker ◴[03 Apr 25 02:29 UTC] No.43564056{5}[source]▶
when was the last time we didn't hear about private companies getting hacked lmao they're terrible!!