By Rajesh Mishra, Times of America Bureau ChiefOn September 15, 2018, a few days after the FBI released the first batch of the new database of millions of names and addresses of U.S. citizens, it announced that a few thousand of those names were missing from the FBI’s public website.
Some were listed as dead, while others had been purged from the database in recent days.
The FBI said the names and other information were missing because they were no longer valid or because they had been updated.
But in a rare public statement, the agency said the FBI was not releasing the names of people who had moved out of the United States since November, the month of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
They were missing data from a database that was “exhausted” by the end of August, it said.
The new database has been used by the FBI to search for missing persons in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
In all of those cases, the names were removed before they could be recovered and the FBI said it was investigating whether the names might have been used in another crime.
The missing names of those who have been purges are now available on the FBI website.
They include those who were deported or whose visa expired but whose information had been reclassified in a way that kept it from being recorded as such.
A spokesman for the National Counterterrorism Center said the bureau was notifying those affected by the purge that the names are no longer available.
The U.K. Home Office said the information was not available on its website because it was not part of the public domain.
A spokesman for Australia’s Department of Immigration said the data was available online, but it was no longer part of public domain as the government had “a lot of processes that have to be completed before they can put them into the public record.”
“The department has made it clear to the Australian Government that it would like to make sure that the information is available to the public, as it is essential to our ongoing investigations into these cases,” the spokesman said in an email.
The United States is not the only country to purge its public database of names.
The European Union, Britain and other countries also have scrubbed the names, while other countries are not as clear.
The U.N. Human Rights Council has called for a ban on the data sharing, and privacy groups have called for it to be more widely shared.
In the U.C.L.A. case, the U,C.M., said the government was in the process of releasing a database of missing Americans.
The Justice Department said the list would be released in 2018.
“I can’t speculate on the cause of these data loss or how the data will be updated,” said Michael J. Bowdich, a spokesman for U.P.L., which represents the families of missing people.
But he added, “we know that the UCR has been releasing missing persons data for several years.
We do not believe this data is part of that.”
In the case of the UCPL, the data has been released on a public website under the banner Missing Persons and Persons Relatives, but not the names or other information about missing Americans in the database.
That website, the government said, “does not include the names nor the other information of UCPs or UCP+ individuals that have been removed from the public database.”
The government said it did not release the names.
The New York Times on Thursday reported that some names in the FBI database were missing for up to six months.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.