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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) by bussdriver on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:20PM
1) That law has been in the works for YEARS; glad it didn't take a disaster to finally sneak it past... i don't have time, it's probably missing the best parts...
2) Trump lost many court cases for violating the law; if you have an army of lawyers and a company you just do settlements and SHIFT and DILUTE blame and stall and threaten...
Moffia Dons:
A lot of mob bosses only get "caught" with extreme efforts and even then it's usually something minor like TAX Evasion... plus some convictions wouldn't hold for normal people; unless it's on tape, it's hard to get a jury or judge to have the same standard when somebody is clearly a mob boss with an army of lawyers and many loyal thugs taking the blame for "misunderstanding" or acting on their own for the organization. People clearly SEE it but getting past them trying to be intellectually honest is difficult; the result is a minor judgement bias.
An army of selfish people pulled into the Trump trap end up working their hardest to save that Evil Forrest Gump because it's either to save their own ass or to try to exploit him some more. He is the perfect storm of stupid, crazy, and 6 of the 7 deadly sins... This level of dishonesty and disloyalty actually helps him like a clever mob boss; out of dumb luck! Even when you catch him on tape it doesn't show anything because nothing he says means anything (he only is forced into standing by a few things not because he really stands for them.) Mob bosses talk in vague terms; Trump tries but fails so he just takes the easy way out by lies constantly about everything big and small.
Also, there is SO MUCH WRONG you get overwhelmed as to what to focus upon which makes even a simple case against him into a long complex never ending mess. The dysfunctional mess of his organizations end up shielding him even more and people are not really loyal, they just have to appear that way to him and the chaos keeps them busy too. Biggest House of Cards built by a single person, possibly ever... or it will be. It's not unlike a pyramid scheme; worst thing you can do is give them more people to use.
FYI:
ORGANIZATIONS are the best defense against the legal system: it is why corporations have almost taken over everything and why organized crime is impossible to touch but the less evolved groups. Shifting risk/blame is easily done and even with a paper trail it doesn't give you a smoking gun pointing directly to the person responsible... at least not usually in a way you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt in court. The more conflated that path to the top is, harder it is to follow clearly. EACH layer of process and staff provides more protection. Even honest functioning government has a huge problem due to it's size amplifying the tiny into huge problems. There are limits to human capabilities even if honest and competent; you can't see the whole picture on everything once it scales beyond cognition.
In politics, there is no burden of proof-- downside is that baseless smears can work so well. Cynical people falsely equate and easily fall for smears against decent people unable to differentiate between them and a total scumbag. BTW, one of Russia's top tactics is to foster this in their enemies (I learned decades ago about it) and that is why Russia is doomed -- they've used the tactic internally forever; that aspect of their culture is poison, and it's one of their favorite weapons (along with actual poison.) The huge shift from military to spying I think has resulted in the largest army and attack on democracy since WW2 (I read they are putting more $ into staff than the cold war.) The result makes despots more appealing without directly promoting them; it promotes despotism because it undermines the mutual trust, respect, and reasonable tolerance necessary to resist despotism. (Which is where all democracies go eventually. Seriously, Ben Franklin said that is our fate, just as death is.)