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posted by martyb on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the Information-wants-to-be-free dept.

Washington, D.C. – Today, President Trump signed into law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act (H.R. 4174, S. 2046), which includes the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (Title II). The package passed Congress on Monday, December 31, 2018.

The OPEN Government Data Act requires all non-sensitive government data to be made available in open and machine-readable formats by default. It establishes Chief Data Officers (CDO) at federal agencies, as well as a CDO Council.

https://www.datacoalition.org/press-releases/president-signs-government-wide-open-data-bill/

OPEN Government Data Act passes.

The OPEN Government Data Act will ensure that the federal government releases valuable data sets, follows best practices in data management, and commits to making data available to the public in a non-proprietary and electronic format.

https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/01/open-government-data-act-signed-into-law-establishes-u-s-as-leader-in-open-data/

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/open-government-data-act/


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:15AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:15AM (#787153)

    Editors removed the more accurate title: https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31172 [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:18AM (#787156)
  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:40AM (3 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:40AM (#787163) Journal

    Trump signs bill forcing government agencies to provide data to russian spies

    Admittedly, that does sound more like what I'll hear if I sit near the TV in the lunch room tomorrow :-p

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    • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:02AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:02AM (#787191)

      Our televised Pravda on however-many channels is just so hopeless, and I can't believe that people buy it.

      I pulled up my Pravda feed (Google News) today to check out the headlines. Yet again, a white woman went missing, and that was front page news.

      • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:17AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:17AM (#787197)

        Yeah, but she might have been raped! In the pussy! It's very important news.

      • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:54AM

        by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:54AM (#787211) Journal

        "There is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia"

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