WOW. @HuffPost @highline has published one of the best features on the disappearance of data in the Trump administration & its impact: highline.huffingtonpost.com/article/disapp… Bravo. Deep, detailed breakdown of the tragic degradation of one of the USA’s precious public resources: self-knowledge. 
March 2017: “The ways that the Trump administration could mess with government data remains the same: budget cuts that could reduce quality, frequency of release or even collection, & alteration or miscommunication of research or statistical information.”
sunlightfoundation.com/2017/03/10/the…
sunlightfoundation.com/2017/03/10/the…
2020: “The erosion of data across the federal government is particularly insidious because it’s relatively invisible to the public at large. Often, the only people who know the value of these sets of numbers are those who work with them daily.”
I’ve talked with so many.
Tragic.
I’ve talked with so many.
Tragic.
There is a “deep state”, as @marcambinder amazon.com/Deep-State-Gov… @danapriest & @warkin documented: fas.org/blogs/secrecy/…
It’s what Ike warned us of, in parting.
But many agencies collect & create data & use it to govern, heal, discover, build, & inform:
servicetoamericamedals.org
It’s what Ike warned us of, in parting.
But many agencies collect & create data & use it to govern, heal, discover, build, & inform:
servicetoamericamedals.org
I’ve been writing about the potential of data for public good & for public harms for a while now: radar.oreilly.com/2012/02/data-p…
The last 4 years in Washington have been hard for anyone who cares about public access to information — & it wasn’t easy before! — but 2020 has been the worst
The last 4 years in Washington have been hard for anyone who cares about public access to information — & it wasn’t easy before! — but 2020 has been the worst
In 2020, the state of #opengov data remains divided, at risk, & underfunded: e-pluribusunum.org/2019/02/11/the…
This @WhiteHouse supports selling data but is hostile to disclosures that show corruption, hold companies accountable, inform the public how power is wielded, & how ads are funded
This @WhiteHouse supports selling data but is hostile to disclosures that show corruption, hold companies accountable, inform the public how power is wielded, & how ads are funded
When open data show reveal incompetence, embarrassment, fraud, waste, or corruption – the Trump regime has tried to remove it. That is why I co-founded @SunWebIntegrity after watch-dogging government data removals from the Internet in 2017, & remain angry Mike Klein shut it down.
In 2017, I had the honor of addressing the annual @ESIPFed conference.
I saw what was already happening to data, & what was to come.
So I thanked the civil servants there for their work gathering data for the People, & making data available to the People.
I saw what was already happening to data, & what was to come.
So I thanked the civil servants there for their work gathering data for the People, & making data available to the People.
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