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FTC to Protect Data of 1.6B People Tracked by Now-Bankrupt Data Broker

Hacker News

One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected industries with unlimited budgets, Congress is too corrupt to do its job. There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. Two, the U.S.

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A case for dynamic scoring of high-skilled immigration

Hacker News

Innovation policy has a budget problem. Here’s how Congress can fix it.

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How Formula 1 Teams Leverage Big Data for Success

Smart Data Collective

With a budget one-third of their more glamorous rivals, the A’s reached the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, and everyone sat up and took note. At one US Formula 1 Grand Prix, it was estimated nearly as much data was transmitted by the competing teams as is stored in the US Library of Congress! of performance improvement.

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Blockchain Developments Lead to New El-Salvador Bitcoin Initiatives

Smart Data Collective

The decision to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender was made by El Salvador’s congress in a unanimous vote. This could make it difficult for businesses to price their goods and services in Bitcoin, and it could also make it difficult for consumers to budget their spending.

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Five recommendations for federal agencies to use the cloud to accelerate modernization

IBM Journey to AI blog

Uneven budget cycles and challenges focusing dollars on modernization compound these factors. Congress and successive administrations have acknowledged these challenges with mandates like the recent Customer Service Executive Order. Federal IT budgets and score cards should incentivize this. Streamline FedRAMP certification.

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A partnership perspective on government cloud security

IBM Journey to AI blog

Uneven budget cycles and challenges focusing dollars on modernization compound these factors. Congress and successive administrations have acknowledged these challenges with mandates like the recent Customer Service Executive Order. Federal IT budgets and score cards should incentivize this. Streamline FedRAMP certification.

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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Hacker News

This style of legislating exploded in the 1980s and 1990s and continues through to the most recent federal budget bill. There is an imperative to pass a federal budget bill, and so the capacity to push back on individual provisions that may seem deleterious (or just impertinent ) to any particular group is small.

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