What America loses when the USDA nukes its taxpayer-funded records of animal cruelty
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2D15B)
Immediately upon assuming office, the Trump administration directed the US Department of Agriculture to take down the extensive records of its publicly funded investigations of animal cruelty in America; now, Americans can only access their own data by paying for expensive, unweildy, and slow Freedom of Information Act requests to the USDA. (more")