'So Much Hard Work Erased': Nate Silver Vents Disney Told Him to 'Get Lost' Before Deleting FiveThirtyEight's Archive

[fujiyamasan]

7. Would anyone actually expect Disney to not do this?

I have no idea what the arrangement was over the ownership of the data, but Silver probably should have better negotiated archival rights up front.

Large corporations frequently purge data. In some cases it’s due to GPDR (likely not the case here), but there are policies in place.

Besides you’re dealing with Disney, whose executives are well… typically corporate ass holes. Once their relationship with Silver was over, they likely said fuck off and had interest in selling him anything either, if it meant giving him any potential edge.