President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday...
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday to make most new federal government data accessible to the public and machine-readable. The order directs federal agencies to make government information available “in ways that make the data easy to find,…
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accessible and usable,” while protecting privacy, confidentiality and national security, it said. The Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with federal technology advisers, will issue an open data policy and update it as required, the order said. The policy will subsequently be adopted by federal agencies who will take steps to ensure that all publicly released data are scrubbed to protect individuals’ privacy, and national security, among other concerns. TechAmerica Senior Vice President-Federal Government Affairs Kevin Richard said the executive order “will facilitate innovation, job growth, and government efficiency,” in a news release.