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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: 2) by ilsa on Wednesday January 16 2019, @10:39PM (1 child)

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 16 2019, @10:39PM (#787625)

    Given how he's handled himself this past year, I have great difficulty believing that he would be willing to sign anything that is beneficial to everyone unless he himself directly and particularly benefits from it.

    So I am going to assume that something has been snuck into the bill, or there is some aspect of the bill that is of particular value to him, such as giving him access to desired information that he didn't have easy access to before.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @11:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @11:22PM (#787649)

    Duh... it's probably the clause that requires special prosecutors to hand over all their files to targets.