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US takes tentative steps toward opening up government data

  • Written by Anjanette Raymond, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Program on Data Management and Information Governance, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University
US takes tentative steps toward opening up government dataOpen data offers great promise, but also some risk.rawf8/shutterstock.com

At the beginning of this year, President Trump signed into law the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act, requiring that nonsensitive government data be made available in machine-readable, open formats by default.

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