i'm with community local data and for my work at local data before that, it's important to see open data, not just as a nice thing for developers but really as a city infrastructure, the same way that roads, we have to make sure they're usable, having buses with three or four seats isn't good, we need to know that open data is useful and accessible, i've been able to work in areas that have very good open data and really provide a lot of value to municipalities there to other private partners who are doing work in those areas and communities, and areas where open data is harder to get a hold of or not as well maintained, so i'm excited that locally we'll be able to do that work aggressively. thanks. >> thank you, anybody else? >> hello. my name is kathrin johnson, i aoep s*ent caravan studios non-profit, that's a division of tech soup global here in san francisco, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to comment on this today, this allows us better tools to serve the community. we are currently working on a project called range which allows a user to find the nearest space in both ti

make no apologies, we need the data to do that. we cannot do it without the data. nor can we report what's happening in the credit card market and make judgments or not. >> i understand that. i know you've given that answer multiple times. i just want you to state directly to us what -- as you collect this data, what the extent of individual account data it is you're collecting. is my description of it inaccurate? >> we are collecting, as i said, the same data already collected by federal regulators, nothing knew about that. the reach of it is such to give us confidence we can oversee the credit card market, know what the patterns of treatment are by financial institutions to consumers and protect consumers if, in fact, somebody is violating the law. >> director i take your answer to be i did correctly describe it. thank you. >> senator reid. >> well, thank you very much, mr. chairman. you mentioned in your opening statement the efforts you've undertaken to protect american servicemen. i think the day after veterans day that's an important thing to do. i want to co

and so, to enable that, we need the data, and to enable that we need to gather the data and i think that when we first envisioned this, my goal personally and i think that there are others here who agreed with this and maybe including the director is that the companies would supply this data. and you know, it has been mandated that they collect the data internally and it would obviously save us money if we got the data from them, there are some claims that they have not gotten a written spec, so forth and so on, there is some claims that the companies have not been giving the ability to provide this data, i think that rather than figure out who spilled whose milk here and we have certainly heard it from both sides and the thing to do is that as the existing. proposal says is to give to the first to give the data time to be provided and have the written spec given in the clear form to the taxi cab companies to move forward with the data gathering and regulatory, you know, assessment aspects of the contract. i would propose an amendment if that is all right, madam chair woman. >> yes. >> a

or all of the rationale, or would the rationale for collecting data apply to internet meta data, and then would all of the scrolling carry over to that or how would the programs be developed or structured? >> a couple thoughts. first, bear in mind that section 215 requires that you obtain bids records. there has to be records in existence that you are obtaining. the -- as we discussed earlier, the telephone companies keep and maintain data for their own business purposes. that allows us to use 215 to get them. it's not clear to me that the same legal authority could be use with respect to internet service providers. more generally, i think that the fisa court's approval of the use of 215 -- >> just on that, i mean, it's my understanding that interpret internet maintains data, sometimes for a short period of time, others a longer period of time, but under the rationale of 215 even holding it for a minute or an hour is enough to -- >> i don't know enough about the technicalities of that, but i'm just saying it's a general limitation on 215, it has to be some sort of document or tangibl

has been collected and what data. we want to be able to do that of course in a way that's a practical, reliable way. so i think it makes good sense to explore the different ways that that kind of an obligation could be satisfied by the government and to take into account the costs that it may -- that it may be necessary to incur. but certainly the value of that sort of detail is significant. >> thank you. mr. banks, you organize an impressive coalition of dozens of technology companies and civil society groups all calling for greater transparency and endorsing my bill specifically. it's a broad coalition of the nation's leading technology internet companies including google and apple and microsoft and facebook. as well as many leading civil liberties books. but mr. salgado, could you just speak to why google and apple and microsoft and facebook are companies that normally compete with each other are working together on this? and what this means in terms of your business. >> yeah, chairman. the disclosure that's we've

large complexw data sets. they figure people who were making a large, the best outlooks data sets were not the people to analyze it. we have this problem that they were investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the creation of data, and next to nothing in understanding of data. their challenge to us, way back startwas how could you with an automatically built model on large complex data, and at stanford that is what we attempted to do. -- and an old batch of we said we are going to be -- we ant to be able to build machine learning model about data and then we want to compare them. it is not an easy problem. we worked on it for quite a while, and that is what we do at our company now. the fundamental idea is every company in the world needs more data scientists, and there are not enough of them. there are a few ways to go about it. you can hire people somehow come external people, to be data scientists for you, you can train scientists and make them more effective at the jump, or you can get massive numbers

and how you want that data. thank you very much. >> lori ann delchrist. >> good afternoon, my name is lori ann delchrist and i'm here speaking on behalf of desoto cab, luxor cab and the yellow cab cooperative. thank you for the opportunity to speak today. my clients understand that mta needs data to do its job and are willing to work to provide the data using the existing systems already required by your regulations. however, there's no justification for moving forward from a modest software contract to a $6 million contract for inintrusive on board hardware. there are a lot of red flags here. the fact there's been no real effort to use existing systems is very troubling. the new contract goes to fti without reopening the process, even though the amount is much bigger, it moving into hardware and fti did not produce its deliverables. existing technology and applications make much of it redundant and duplicative. there's an obvious bias in here in favor of the intrusive and costly fti on board devices. given the

make no apologies, we need the data to do that. we cannot do it without the data. nor can we report what's happening in the credit card market and make judgments or not. >> i understand that. i know you've given that answer multiple times. i just want you to state directly to us what -- as you collect this data, what the extent of individual account data it is you're collecting. is my description of it inaccurate? >> we are collecting, as i said, the same data already collected by federal regulators, nothing knew about that. the reach of it is such to give us confidence we can oversee the credit card market, know what the patterns of treatment are by financial institutions to consumers and protect consumers if, in fact, somebody is violating the law. >> director i take your answer to be i did correctly describe it. thank you. >> senator reid. >> well, thank you very much, mr. chairman. you mentioned in your opening statement the efforts you've undertaken to protect american servicemen. i think the day after veterans day that's an important thing to do. i want to co

a they can get it done to the line item data and say here is the noise in the data. at least you have a communal international fight over this is good and bad and those on the conservative sides it may not yield what we think it will. why is that a difficult doftion have? >> i don't think there's any prelim controversial about making data available. i show you from earlier in the year it was stunningly -- all that epa is really trying to do is responsibility under a number of laws. which is basically we want to be supporting to the extent we can open this transparency. sharing information, sharing data. meeting our -- but. >> may i finish? one thing i think we need to have make sure there's a clear understanding. we have obligations to protect private information -- >> but -- but i will -- >> that's a bizarre comment. because do what everyone else does strip the personal identifiers. >> we are actually asking those same questions. if you -- >> but how do you -- use as an excuse not to give them data. >> i'm not trying to offer excuses, congressman. i'm trying to be a

people use this data. i'm curious in the past when it was distributed you had an idea of who had it but on the online website those down loads pdf is it usually characters or different requesters. that might help answer questions how this data can be applied or used. you guys maybe have given this thought already >> commissioner borden. >> thank you. i'm glad to see the data. two questions. i'd love to see kind of following up on the issue of unemployment you're hearing about retiring and the trades are coming to us i'd love to know do we collect any data on that it would be nice to see how many people in the program have gotten jobs and union related jobs because we hear about that in the downturn. the other question is related to ti f. were some of the projects that got the referral were they t d f projects and what about the deferred fees >> i'll have to look that the fee is collected before the occupancy. i'm not sure how this is effected by referrals >> i think it was the certify where they had to pay

data on deaths. what we don't have available to us with the full breadth of raw data is the data which follows individuals. so when we haven't data we have to protect it. we don't need to see the wealth of raw data under every study to know that it's been rigorously peer-reviewed and we can rely on it for our decision-making. >> has there ever been a time that congress has requested raw data or is this a unique time? >> we did actually face similar questions frankly about the exact same issues, the pm studies, the particulate matter studies from harvard university and the american cancer society. we were asked similar questions back in the early 90s is my understanding and we funded through a contractor 30 researchers to look for three years that all of that underlying data. they have available because they can enter into a confidential contract with the researchers to access that data so that private information is protected. they didn't complete reanalysis of that data and the methodologies -- meth

i don't that have data and hsf don't have that data. their own medical doctor don't have that data. kaiser has that data and they track that for the avoidable data. they didn't share the data and that's what we need to drive quality health care. i hope if we move forward, that the board will make data required. >> next speaker accident please. >> good afternoon supervisor. my name is rebecca and i'm a registered nurse and a member of sci 1021. larry talked about the data and we need it not just on pricing but outcomes. patients wants that data and we don't know what to tell them. we have ads are with the best guesses. that's not how we do things in medicine. i'm better off buying a used car in san francisco than i am trying to figure out which provider, which facility provides better karat a reasonable cost. when i buy a used car, they give me a car fax and it says that car has been involved in five collisions or that car was a rental. i have the data. it gives me the information to make the best decision. right now you have the power to look at regulation, to look at legislation, t

a new data center in utah which can house more computers so that they can process more data, we're really seeing a race, an international race for which government can accumulate the most data. and clearly, the u.s. wants to be at that tom of the -- at that top of the list. hand in hand with that goes an enormous amount of secrecy about these programs so that it's often just by accident that we learn really the extent to which our personal records are being gathered, stored and then with storage really at risk of not only inaccurate data, but getting in the hands of people who may want to alter your medical or financial or other records. so there's a lot of possibility for manipulation. i've sort of lost track of the beginning of the question. >> >> well, the beginning of the question was the division between the private and government, and one could argue that the private sector has a stake in protecting privacy, or you'll switch to another carrier or so forth. it seems to me the government, particularly after 9/11, comes this and says, bullshit, you know? i'm sorry, i forgot c-span -- b

s one point five billion dollar data center. shortly thereafter the group thought of a way to claim a two mile long stake right next to the n.s.a. they keep on trying to kick us out for being here why don't we just adopt a highway rethink. and we can clean up in the coming weeks a picket sign will be placed right here that says we're store the for you tom and for each day that employees report to work at the data center they will pass by this sign reminded of the public distrust of the n.s.a. and its ever expanding surveillance programs r t four members will be required to clean the highway at least three times a year but many activists like lorraine a potter plan on being outside the data center much more often armed with an anti n.s.a. picket sign they believe that it is their place to take in harvest all of our information the fourth amendment to the us constitution guarantees the right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure. r t four was born into a nationwide grassroots movement after whistleblower edward snowden

failure to collect traffic stop data it seems to be increasing, rather than decreasing. am i correct in that assessment? >> vice chair terman, i don't know that it is -- i would have to take a look and compare the first three quarters of 2012 with the first three quarters of 2013 and let you know. it kinda goes up and down and when -- as i understand chief's policy and certainly chief antonio can advise, when someone is us stained for failure to collect traffic stop data the first time it's an admonishment and then if it's more than once, then the discipline progresses and one officer who refused to collect traffic stop data and stated that in that officers interview with the occ, that that officer did have time to do it, that officer was suspended. >> yeah. i understand the progressive discipline we have in place, but i want to -- i guess i'd like to hear more information on those comparisons between 2012 and 2013, the first three quarters, 'cause i'd like to know the affect to have this, and discuss what we need to do about it, if anything. >> yes. and i will provide y

they have no more access to to data than we do. the doctors are trying to make decisions on quality, they have little access to data. you don't know what california pacific is charging for a hospitalization. how can you manage health care or be asked to manage or contribute to the solution if you have no transparency into the costs. so what we are all aiming for, everyone in health care, what we're all aiming for is what have been dubbed the triple care. we want to have lower cost or cost that are sustainable. this is important to the patients, the purchasers and providers and everyone in health care. i'm going to just let you no he what we're asking for and i think supervisor farrel, you mentioned this already. we're going to be asked the board of supervisors to pass the resolution supporting health care in transparency in the public interest. we're going to ask to help us investigate and pursue the legal framework that will do three things. one, support cost transparency, two insure that contracts with the city support accountabi

as a citizen i'm worried about my data. >> the average costf one data breach is oy about $188. some are more expensive and some less. they tell me the biggest stance of dataoss is mishandled paper, not computers, with private information on it. now w break down these numbers by state agencies.f attack and go to our website, the investigativetab. d click on >> fainating. >> if you have a tip for our inveigative unit give us a call at 888-996-tips or sd us an e-mail >>> let's check in with meteorogist jeff ranie who is tracking the rain that is coming in. and you sd is starting in >> is it. bay. a few rain drops in santa rosa. it is still credible to think how long it has been since w d the rain drops. en i feel the rain drops i will be excited. let's get a look right now. as we zoom in on the doppler scan the most csistent rain is happening inorthern santa rosa. there is an area developing to the north and west of san francisco. we think it will move incross the bay area in the early overnight hours. 1:00 and 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning is wn the highways begin to get t. and th

data like never before. tearing down the walls between agencies who make the city work smarter. it is brilliant and banal. >> this morning i found out there was something we know about boilers. how below grade in the basement it might be and then you overlay that with the flat area for the 500 year flood zone and there you have your priority. to make sure that place is resilient and can hold up in the event of another flood. -- synthesizing the day that can sweep away the old way of doing things. >> it makes my job easier. signing -- the streamlines everything where i have a computer system. so the city is challenging tech entrepreneurs to use the data and to remove the barriers between the government and the governed. data fromert raw actionable local knowledge. at the end of the day, citizens do not care about the data set. they care about the information about themselves, if i live here be nice to would know the median house value, but the violations are. we can give that kind of answer. >> dubbing the ap

what we don't have available to us with the full breadth of raw data is the culprit data which follows individuals. when we have that data we stro protect it. we don't need to see the wealth of raw data under every study to know it's been rigorously peer reviewed and rely on it for decision making. >> has there ever been a time when the congress asked raw data that is unique? >> we did actually face similar questioning with, frankly, sent about the exact same issues. the pm studies, the particular matter studies studies from harvard university and american cancer society. we were asked similar questions back in the early '90s, is my understanding, and we funded through a contractor 30 researchers to look for three years at all of that underlying data. they had available because they could enter to a confidential contract with the researchers to access that data so the private information was protected. they did a complete reanalysis of that data in the methodologies used and they came out with the same types of conclusions. so we have verified even with that underlying data available t

official data. it was the bloodiest month in iraq since two thousand and eight and while the country's prime minister america. gets the u.s. drug treatment as a strike goes the leader of the pakistani taliban who apparently wants to negotiate . that is almost like a symbolic overwatch with populists it makes your paranoid as a new n.s.a. complex is besieged by protesters critics brand new senate bill designed. as a way to watch me legalize the data collection of millions of americans. quite a saturday morning here in moscow this is with me rule re sushi thanks very much for joining us today. has become the bloodiest month in iraq now in five years the data coming from the country's interior defense and health ministry now putting the death toll at nine hundred sixty four people almost ninety percent of them being civilians and according to the government the number hasn't been this high since april two thousand and eight when more than a thousand people were killed in the numbers don't quite corresp

neglect of duty cases where separate officers in separate incidents failed to collect traffic stop data. each officer was admonished. in another case a sergeant's car was towed and was driven by an unlicensed driver, but the car's owner was sitting in the passenger seat and requested to drive the car, so the sergeant received a written reprimand. and an unnecessary force allegation, an officer used unnecessary force when attempting to take the complainant, fleeing jaywalking from custody by striking the suspect with the suspect's gun when the suspect was attempting to flee. the jaywalker at the time was approached by the officer, the officer did not know he had a gun. >> okay. >> and the officer asked the jaywalker to stop, the jaywalker chose to run and tossed his weapon. >> okay. >> and the officer retrieved the weapon and was attempting -- two officers were attempting to detain the complainant and the officer used the complainant's gun to strike him in the head twice to gain compliance. in another case where allegations discourtesy, neglective duty and unnecessary force were sustaine

there are a lot of data gaps. i was a local elected official and we worked very hard to get schools to collect data on incidents of violence in the school and, frankly, there's a lot of data integrity issues involved. you don't want to be the school that has the highest number of incidents in your district. and so there's a built-in perverse incentive to sweep things under the rug. and so part of the challenge moving forward and i have had many conversations with superintendents and law enforcement officials as well about how we can address this data integrity issue and how a school won't be hoisted by their own petard because they had the courage to collect the data when other schools kind of look the other way. so, again, it's a hard question to answer in ways that are other than anecdote. there have been survey data and things of that nature, but i feel uncomfortable saying unequivocally this is what we know, these are the trends. i like to be evidence based and i'm not sure the evidence allows that. >> roslyn,

. >> authorizing the director to execute a software license to collect manage and abl liez taxi data for regulatory purposes and to support the electronic taxi access system and to lease on board devices not to exceed $6 million and a contract term of 5 years. >> good afternoon, director. >> let me start, i know you had a very long, maybe record longest staff report on this. we're not going to go all the way through the report. i just want to quickly introduce this and ask the director to hit some highlights but just to remind you of the context for this, one of the most significant challenges that we have had with the taxi industry, with taxi service in san francisco, is the difficulty people have accessing a taxi. and while there are many things that we've been doing over the years that you have authorized over the years to help reform and improve taxi service in san francisco, there are really two core things that we've i think agreed that we need to do, have been striving to do. one is to increase the number of taxis in san francisco which thanks to your authorization we are in t