The White House asks agencies to classify data into three access tiers
Nick Sinai · Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Oct 16, 2014 · at 24:07
Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO, explains how the administration guides federal agencies on balancing open data goals with personal privacy protections.
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“One of the practical ways that we're asking agencies to deal with this is to really think about data in three, three classes. There's stuff that is public, there's stuff that is restricted public, and there's stuff that is non-public”
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