Earlier this year, the Power of Information taskforce urged that freeing up geospatial data should be a priority – a recommendation accepted "in principle" by the government.
In the most exciting sign yet of the wind of change blowing through the government's attitude to taxpayer-funded data, a ministerial taskforce last week opened up new swathes of previously invisible information for re-use on the web - and threw in the offer of a £20,000 for the best idea to exploit it.
As part of the development of the French National Health Insurance System data network REDSIAM, the tumor taskforce established an inventory of national and internal published algorithms in the field of cancer.
New leads are understood to have come from information obtained by the UK taskforce, with ministers saying it had acquired "high-quality, significant and credible data on offshore activity in Panama".
A report last week by the Malnutrition Taskforce, a campaign group, highlighted data showing that the number of people in England receiving meals on wheels fell by more than half in the four years to 2013-14.
Screenshots of drug listings, several journals providing information on transactions in painstaking detail, fake identification documentation, and thousands of pages of chat logs were just some of the data seized by the multi-agency federal taskforce from Ulbricht's home and laptop after his arrest in October 2013.
The same duration (5 min) of data were analysed as established by the Taskforce (Malik et al. 1996).
The managers of two marketing companies have been charged with buying the stolen records.In this section In three parts The inevitability of instability The year of the ant From a low base Card sharps Bribing the taxpayer Grease-proof taper Risk off ReprintsThe government has set up a taskforce to "overhaul" the current data-protection rules and to toughen penalties.
"There was a great emphasis on the need to collect more data," Barack Obama said after a meeting with the taskforce.
"There was a great emphasis on the need to collect more data," Obama said after a meeting with the taskforce.
"There's no reason for us not to have this data available," the Philadelphia police commissioner, Charles H Ramsey, a taskforce co-chair, told the Guardian.
