February 1st, 2025

All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders

Data.CDC.gov is offline to comply with Executive Order 14168, addressing gender ideology extremism. It will resume operations after meeting compliance requirements by January 29, 2025.

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All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders

Data.CDC.gov is currently offline to comply with Executive Order 14168, which aims to address issues related to gender ideology extremism and restore biological truth within the federal government. The site will resume operations once it meets the compliance requirements outlined in the order and the Office of Personnel Management's notice dated January 29, 2025. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has indicated that the website's temporary shutdown is part of a broader initiative to align federal operations with the new directives.

- Data.CDC.gov is offline due to compliance with Executive Order 14168.

- The site will resume once it meets the new compliance requirements.

- The shutdown is part of a federal initiative addressing gender ideology extremism.

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By @MysticOracle - 2 months
Looks like /r/datahoarder was backing it up just in time:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1iekywr/cdc_we...

By @pesus - 2 months
There is nothing good that come from this. We are headed for disaster, especially if bird flu or something else starts spreading quickly enough.
By @grantmuller - 2 months
Like a penetration test or a security test, you don't know where you're out of compliance until you perform an audit; you don't normally shut down your site in the meantime.

The correct way to comply with this is to suggest that you don't believe that you're out of compliance, and to request specific guidance on which particular datasets aren't in compliance that should be removed.

By @Havoc - 2 months
Onward into the new dark age
By @Arubis - 2 months
Why does nobody refuse to follow these orders? They’re being issued by someone who flagrantly doesn’t follow the rules.
By @madmonk - 2 months
I wrote a webapp to pull your local covid wastewater data from cdc data. It's still working, so they either left their feeds in place or haven't gotten to them yet.

https://madmonk13.github.io/covid_ww_levels/

By @LargeWu - 2 months
This is what fascism looks like.
By @jeffbee - 2 months
https://www.census.gov/ is also offline.
By @fergbrain - 2 months
Is this malicious compliance or is the data all really in violation of the EO?
By @tim333 - 2 months
It does say "temporarily offline" while they adjust the transgender settings.
By @johnthescott - 2 months
why would the whole site be taken offline?
By @tasuki - 2 months
I read the beginning of the executive order:

> Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women's domestic abuse shelters to women's workplace showers. This is wrong.

This... isn't necessarily something I'd disagree with. This being the Trump administration, I suppose there might be some skeletons hiding later on in the text.

They also talk about the distinction between "sex" and "gender". You're still free to choose any gender you like!