Data For Democracy Monthly Roundup: April 2018
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Some highlights from April are:
Facebook in Congress
This past week Mark Zuckerburg testified for 2 days in front of the United States congress. @kris.shaffer live tweeted during the hearings and shared an article on profiling, data, and Cambridge Analytica.
We had a temporary channel, #facebook-congress where D4D members discussed the hearings during day 2.
@renee and @jonathon co-authored a piece about the Facebook hearings in The Guardian.
#Texas_beer_project
Member @Gabriela is looking for volunteers interested in the texas_beer_project.
“Howdy, folks! I’m starting to do some data and policy analysis work around state beer laws, with the hopes of putting together something substantive to support the Texas Craft Brewers Guild as they ramp up to push for beer law reform in the 2019 Texas Legislative Session. Here’s a good article that outlines the issues, for reference”
#p-sydney-crime-spot
@sidharth.bolar Had an idea on a new project where that can use Sydney crime data and estimate the following:
1 →Determine what type of crime will occur provided we know an incident has occurred at any place
2 → Determine if a particular place or location is susceptible to a particular crime and how the general public can be made aware of its occurrence
The new channel created is #p-sydney-crime-spot
Data For Democracy Community Announcements
@kris.shaffer shared this article stating that a DC court has ruled that gathering publicly available info is no longer a computer crime.
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@Niket shared an doc about the changing data landscape in India.
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Thanks!
We are so grateful for all the volunteers who have put so much time and effort into making this community work. We remain inspired by the work that is being done in this community; thank you for all the amazing work that you’ve done and for continuing to collaborate on more projects. We can’t wait to see what D4D accomplishes next!
Over and out,
The Data for Democracy team
