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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: 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.