In January, the R Street Institute, Demand Progress Education Fund, and POPVOX Foundation hosted a cybersecurity training for House staff. While the House and Senate provide resources and training to protect official accounts, at this time, there’s no equivalent support for staffers’ non-official accounts.
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FBF: The Untapped Goldmine of Legislative Data: Rocket Fuel for AI
This past Tuesday, I sat in on an excellent hearing on the use of Artificial Intelligence in the Legislative Branch, hosted by the House Administration Committee. I’m not going to recap it here — Aubrey already did that — but I did want to share a good idea that I ripped off from the Obama administration.
It’s a really simple idea: in order to build on top of data, you have to know what you have. To wit: way back in the midst of time, 2013 to be precise, President Obama required agencies to conduct and create “enterprise data inventories” — a comprehensive list of all the data an agency holds.
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