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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @04:10AM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @04:10AM (#787219)

    So? You want transcripts of the presidents every word to meet your criteria for transparent now?

    Im ok with that in general, actually last election there was a guy out here who ran for governor or mayor or something on the platform that all political offices would be bugged and theyd have to wear go-pros all day. Still, just pointing one persons actions without making a comparison when we are talking about relative transparency is invalid.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:16PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:16PM (#787452)

    No, but I will require such transcripts if you want to call him the most transparent. Meeting multiple times with our biggest adversary and no other US officials? We are truly living in crazy times when conservatives are bending over backwards to defend multiple secret meetings with a Russian president.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:42PM (7 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:42PM (#787467)

      "No, but I will require such transcripts if you want to call him the most transparent."

      Are there transcripts of previous president's discussions with other heads of state?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @09:45PM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @09:45PM (#787588)

        Yes other Presidents have met privately with heads of state, but always with an interpreter or other official. As with many things Trump his meetings with Putin are "unpresidented". If he was breaking with tradition and protocol in a good way then you wouldn't have so many people upset about it, but as it stands your only defense of him is "he hasn't been convicted in a court of law." Everything else points to Trump being the shittiest most corrupt president ever.

        • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday January 16 2019, @10:03PM (1 child)

          by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday January 16 2019, @10:03PM (#787596)

          "unpresidented"

          Unprecedented. As in, without precedent. [merriam-webster.com]

          --
          "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:29AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:29AM (#787682)

          Yes other Presidents have met privately with heads of state, but always with an interpreter or other official.

          Source?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:38AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:38AM (#787685)

          President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.

          The session, which Obama attended himself, followed a similar gathering earlier this week between top administration officials, tech-industry lobbyists and leading privacy hawks, the sources said. Those earlier, off-the-record discussions centered on the controversy surrounding the NSA as well as commercial privacy issues such as online tracking of consumers.

          No one involved in the meetings will talk about what was discussed

          https://www.cultofmac.com/239634/obama-meets-with-apple-ceo-tim-cook-in-private-meeting-to-discuss-prism/ [cultofmac.com]

          hmm...

          Russian president Vladimir Putin and U.S. president Barack Obama will meet privately in Northern Ireland for the first time since they were both returned to office.

          https://www.cfr.org/interview/what-expect-putin-obama-meeting [cfr.org]
          Who else was in this meeting? Where is the transcript?

          • (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Thursday January 17 2019, @06:06PM (1 child)

            by Nobuddy (1626) on Thursday January 17 2019, @06:06PM (#787963)

            The meeting was cancelled. They talked at G8, in the meeting instead.