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President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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/

exaeta writes:

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: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:55AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:55AM (#787170)

    Every administration will do some good things, and he didn't create the legislation anyway.

    The passage of H.R. 4174 would not have been possible without the dedication and leadership of former Speaker Paul Ryan (WI-1-R), Senators Patty Murray (WA-D), Brian Schatz (HI-D), Ben Sasse (NE-R), and Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-6-D). The bipartisan effort to improve access and availability of government data benefits citizens, institutions, and the private sector.

    Found the reason

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by HiThere on Wednesday January 16 2019, @02:31AM (4 children)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 16 2019, @02:31AM (#787179) Journal

    Maybe. But legislation so often does the exact opposite of what its name claims that it will do that I remain dubious.

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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:21AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:21AM (#787199)

      It can be both. Government sponsored fraudulent science used to drive decision-making. TFA:

      The OPEN Government Data Act seeks to... require the federal government to use open data to improve decision making.

      This open data will likely come from the private sector. Whatever the case, it will certainly be used to advance the interests of the private sector. In other words, this can be used to undermine authentic evidence-based policymaking.

      Our world is being run by people with dark triad personality disorders [wikipedia.org] and other psychopaths. I would not be surprised to see scientific racism and sexism, of all kinds, crop up as well.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:26AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:26AM (#787200)

        oops. s/fraudulent //. Private sector will be the one supplying the data, licensed with the open government license, which the government is required to use.

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:28AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:28AM (#787201)

          ...agh, my kingdom for an edit button...

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 16 2019, @06:50PM

      by Freeman (732) on Wednesday January 16 2019, @06:50PM (#787494) Journal

      I was going to go into how the "Patriot Act" is an abominable oxymoron, but how others don't have to be. Then I thought, this is politics, it's entirely possible that most bills don't do what they claim.

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  • (Score: 1) by bussdriver on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:55PM

    by bussdriver (6876) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:55PM (#787470)

    The bill passed with huge majorities. It wouldn't need Trump other than the Senate seems to be held hostage by the Majority Leader who won't disagree with Trump in the slightest anymore. Did his wife do something corrupt that Trump knows about? (she works for Trump.)

    Conspiracies aside, Trump wasn't needed to pass this law and since he needs to have something (having done so little) he might as well sign some papers he won't ever read anyway.

  • (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Thursday January 17 2019, @05:51PM

    by Nobuddy (1626) on Thursday January 17 2019, @05:51PM (#787954)

    Paul Ryan? Yea, now we KNOW there is some shady shit in there.