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://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/open-government-data-act/
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @03:21AM (2 children)
It can be both. Government sponsored fraudulent science used to drive decision-making. TFA:
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)
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
...agh, my kingdom for an edit button...