Briefing: Data Security, Infectious Disease Control + more
Our very hard-working Data Security team rolled out ✨topic tags✨ this week. You can use these to view — and link to — thematically grouped entries of interest to your community: security failures, fights over election data, government surveillance of dissenters, or perhaps the gratifyingly widespread opposition to this administration’s destructive actions. (More on how to do this below.)
Right now only our two largest pages (Data Security and Immigration) have topic tags, though all pages have tags for tracking lawsuits. We’ll be bringing topic tags to all the timelines, one at a time. Producing high-quality metadata is time-consuming — but absolutely worth the effort!
How to link to a set of entries
Select “filter timeline” on any issue page to show that page’s tags.
Choosing any tag or group of tags will change the URL in your browser’s address bar to match your selection. You can then copy-and-paste it to send to friends, post online, or share with your local community.
Timeline updates
This week:
- Data Security added 30 entries to the timeline, including many entries on recent attempts to block voting by mail and consolidate Americans’ private data, plus some resistance from unexpected quarters.
- Infectious Disease Control & Prevention added 13 events to the timeline, many focused on vaccines: We got approvals for new COVID shots, but the administration is working hard on multiple fronts to make vaccination less accessible.
- Archives & History added 2 items to the timeline, including the publication of a bizarre, anonymously authored Census Bureau report on immigrant voter fraud.
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