The DATA Act and Social Networking

All,

This is for all my friends at Facebook ... like, if I had any.

If you consider yourself a veteran of Government Service then it is easy to dismiss the complaints of Mark Zuckerberg and others in the Computer Industry.  I'm not so sure that is fair.  Where global data trade and diplomatic conventions mix, Facebook and Data.Gov are in very different businesses.  Neither can wantonly violate any international diplomatic prohibitions, and that puts them on the same side.


When Government Agencies worldwide offer Open Data and concurrently offer the same data sets to indexes like Data.Gov, the Open Data Project core meta data should be exactly the same as if the data set were distributed directly to the Public.

Conceptually, this can be done quite easily, even if the practice is a bit messier (and louder).

http://tinyurl.com/export-cert
(direct) http://www.rustprivacy.org/faca/simTLD/silk_road.php

This is technical low hanging fruit, regardless.



--Gannon