data. we need to be able to expand our sources of data and our capabilities of analyzing that data. it's one thing to get in a lot of data, but if we don't have the resources and the staff and the technology to assess that data, to understand where the risks and the hazards are, it's for naught. we need to improve on both those fronts. we need to be constantly looking around and being aware of new sources of data that will enhance our capability to assess risks and the hazards that are out there. one of the -- we recently had our priorities hearing. i think when we're looking at sources of data, it's important to talk about safetyproducts.gov. throughout our hearing, it was raised it's old. it's been around for ten years. it needs to be enhanced. it needs to be modernized and made more user friendly. we'll be working to do that in the weeks and months ahead to see what we can do and put that in the operating plan so we can make that source of data even more effective and more user friendly. we need to raise awareness to the consumer that that's a good place for you to share your inf

data. we need to expand our sources of data and how to analyze that data. if we don't have the resources and staff and technology to assess that data, to understand where the risks and hazards are , it's for nothing. we need to improve on both of those fronts. and we need to be constantly looking around, and a -- looking for ways to enhance that. we're looking at sources of data it's important to talk about safety products. rachel has raise that warning. our website is old, it needs to be enhanced, modernized, and made it your -- more user- friendly. we are going to try to make that source of data more effective and more user- friendly. we need to raise awareness to the consumer. that's a good portal for you to share your experience with us. there will be improvements being done on that. just a couple of other issues that the agency is focusing on. to bring you up to speed on the agency. the first is voluntary standards. the staff is engaged in voluntary standard committees. we are actively involved. we gave our staff the ability to vote and take leadership

on the other side of use open source data has been often criticised and the russians are saying no you should use people witnesses on the scene the say they on test when they saw what what happened themselves why spending campaign so prominent in this investigation all the way along and you think it's been sufficiently enough scrutinising criticize it. i think when the messenger is transmitting a message that the powers that be want to be heard then the messenger has immunity from investigation and that's what. this particular outfit are in the privileged position of being so they can say whatever they like as long as i don't see russian they're going to be not really looked at very closely at all it's really like in the script whole case all that denko where things are stated to be fine arco and they're not scrutinized and what this is just really an earlier version present a draft version of the same kind of scenario marc are we going to leave it to international affairs counter market gusset like roosevelt to go to in some petersburg thank you for your thoughts and being with us app

data. we need to be able to expand our sources of data and our capabilities of analyzing that data. it is one thing to get in a of data, but if we do not have the resources, staff, and the technology to assess that data, understand where the risks and hazards are, it gets for naught. so we need to improve on both his friends. we need to be constantly looking around and being aware of new sources of data that will enhance our capabilities to assess risks and hazards that are out there. of we recently had our priorities hearing, and when we look at sources of data, it is important to talk about safer product.gov. threat the course of the hearing, it was raised. rachel was one who raised it, but others raised it. roduct.gov needs to be made more user-friendly. we will work to do that in the weeks and months ahead see what we can do and put that in the operating plans of we can make that source of data even more effective and more user-friendly. then we need to raise awareness to the consumer that that is a good portal for you to share your experience and information with us. stay tuned

which relied on an organization called belling cat a citizen journalism and a group using open source data of videos from you tube images from social media to build their version of events with the joint investigative team themselves saying that many of the conclusions that belling cat had come to also fitted in with their version of events that we realize that the belling get investigation team already reached the same conclusions and published them so we as the joint investigation team have our own independent investigation and the conclusions we draw from it must be based on legal and convincing evidence which will stand in a courtroom so much of the evidence presented that was of course accused as refutable proof of russia's involvement or indeed russia's guilt in the downing of this plane but aside from having their evidence used in these of official investigations by link out of course as an organization has not certainly been short of both criticism and controversy as we can take a look at now and higgins who runs the website belling count the laid off admin worker who made a name f

we've seen the emergence of congress.gov, the release of open source data. in the creation of a bipartisan modernization task force. we witness great change off of capitol hill. launch of new technology tools and platforms that connect citizens with their leaders in a way never before imagined. i don't think i have to tell you that -- is having some effect on our democracy. i want to ask you to raise your hand on whether that's a positive or negative affect. the truth is, on the profound truth is that is having a marked difference. i've been working to bring the democratic caucus up-to-date with the latest technology. i continue to run the house social media contest each summer. this year started an intensive digital training program that we call the digital economy. it will not surprise you that steve oversees that. we graduated 50 staffer so far this year. we continue to have an innovative digital platform that allows anyone to enter staffer to submit recommendations. it's already made a difference. last spring my office launched a major update to the popu

on organizations such as bell and cat organization effectively of citizen journalism using open source data found on the internet photos publicly available from social media etc a lot of that evidence was taken into account both by the dutch safety board investigation and the j.i.t. as well was according to the russian move through the fence at least what from what they're saying much of their evidence was either discounted or not given as you care and attention in coming to those conclusions let's take a closer look at what evidence exactly was used and where it came from from that organization. it hagan's who runs the website blink out the laid off admin worker who made a name for himself by analyzing weapons used in the syrian conflict never been to syria. doesn't speak what are there and he conducts his presidency set from the concept of his honor and his begins himself admits he has no experience in the field before the arab spring and you know more about weapons than the average exploits owner had no knowledge beyond what i learned from arnold schwarzenegger and run though. his tools

belling catch which is a citizen journalism or to citizen journalism organization relying on open source data social media youtube videos etc to bring about their evidence let's take a closer look to what they had to say today. we realize that the belling get investigation team already reached the same conclusions and published that we as the joint investigation team have our own independent investigation and the conclusions we draw from it must be based on legal and convincing evidence which will stand in a courtroom. now much of the evidence presented that was of course. refutable proof of russia's involvement or indeed russia's guilt in the downing of this plane but aside from having their evidence used in these of official investigations by link out of course as an organization has not certainly been short of both criticism and controversy as we can take a look at now. and higgins who runs the website telling can the laid off admin work who made a name for himself by analyzing weapons used in the syrian conflict and never been to syria. doesn't speak out there and he conducts his presiden

which relied on an organization called burning cat a citizen journalism and a group using open source data of videos from you tube images from social media to build their version of events with a joint of us to give team themselves saying that many of the conclusions that belling cat had come to also fitted in with their version of events that we realize that the belling get in this to give already reached the same conclusions and publish them we as the joint investigation team have our own independent investigation and the conclusions we draw from it must be based on legal and convincing evidence which will stand in a courtroom so much of the evidence presented that was of course used as refutable proof of russia's involvement or indeed russia's guilt in the downing of this plane but aside from having their evidence used in these of official investigations by link out of course as an organization has not certainly been short of both criticism and controversy as we can take a look at now and higgins who runs the website belling can be laid off admin worker who made a name for himself by an

open source data social media photos etc to base their version of events let's take a closer look now at what evidence was produced there. and he had higgins who runs the website belling count the laid off admin work who made a name for himself by analyzing weapons used in the syrian conflict never been to syria doesn't speak a word of our there and he conducts his presidency set from the concept of his honor in his home against himself admits he has no experience in the field before the arab spring i knew no more about weapons than the average x. books i had no knowledge beyond what i learned from arnold schwarzenegger and run by. his tools of choice for uncovering global conspiracies for you tube and google billboards in the air it kind of looked the same but it wasn't really you know this isn't enough to say this is the same there was you can see the path from the grass but again it's not a great match so we know the russians light. and the media loves it eliot higgins or dish blogger and analyzing the pictures of the wreckage thank you for joining the program but some are question

we have seen the emergence of congress.gov, the release of open source data in machine readable format for use by third-party sites, and the creation of a bipartisan modernization task force. we have also witnessed great change in the world of technology on capitol hill. with the launch of new technology tools and platforms that connects citizens with their leaders in a way never before imagined. now, i don't think i have to tell any of you that twitter is having some effect on our democracy. i won't ask you to raise your hand on whether that is a positive or a negative effect, but the truth is, and the profound truth is it is having a marked difference. here on the hill, i have been working to bring the democratic caucus up-to-date with the latest technology. i've continue to run the house democratic social media contest summer. this year, with representatives probably and staccato i have started intensive digital training program that we call the digital academy. it will not surprise you that steve dwyer does all of that. we have graduated 50 staffers so far this year. my office cont

we started this about three weeks ago, and we're using this as a crowd sourcing data so we can make sure that officers are in a position to go to places where double parking go there again and again and again, and issue tickets. >> supervisor kim: so we'll start to get a trend or overall picture of where double parking is happens, and then we'll get a trend of what happens in those neighborhoods. >> yes wran jane doesn. >> supervisor kim: does not double parking happen all throughout the city? >> it does, but it happens in some places more than others. we want to find the places where the most people are affected by it. >> supervisor kim: is there a -- i'm sure there's a set of legal issues around ticketing based off of the -- a phone camera photo but could you explain that to me? 'cause you know, he see the license plate clearing blocking the bike lane or double parking. what are the circumstances around issuing a ticket in this instance. >> there are very limited circumstances where a picture can be used to issue a ticket. the cameras that are mounts on muni buses can take pictures of

tech innovation that we produced the first comprehensive open data for the legislators in congress and and can be the authoritative source of that data. but and then a couple of things and with that analysis moving from bill to bill hundreds are enacted that we know about because those provisions have been taken out of one bill moving to the optimist -- on the best and now all bills are enacted workforce of the because i move from one bill to another mother is a button at the top right of every page into spanish using google translate and other improvements and to make congress more accessible and also we have been working with the partnership and now sending over to facebook messenger and to call what is moving through to get almost 600 calls and then the screenshot of what the conversation looks like when we are doing that. we just launched two hours ago so if you open your phones you will see a link to the top to a new page that looks at ethics violations and sexual-harassment and so on. i am happy we have put that together we are a small team. i have three part-time staffers but we reach almost 10 million people i wo

data. we need to be able to expand our sources of data and our capabilities of analyzing that data. it's one thing to get in a lot of data. but if we don't have the resources and the staff and the technology to assess that data to understand where the risks and the hazards are, it's for naught. so we need to improve on both of those fronts. and we need to be constantly looking around and being aware of new sources of data that will enhance our capability to assess risks and hazards out there. one of the -- we recently had our priorities hearing, and i think when we are looking at sources of data, it's important to talk about safer products.gov. throughout the course of our priorities hearing it was raised. rachel was one of the people who raised but others, as well. oursaferproducts.gov is old. it needs to be enhanced. it needs to be modernized and needs to be made more user-friendly. so we will be working to do that in the weeks and months ahead to see what we can do and put that in the operating plan so we can make that source of data even for effective and more user-friendly. and

these data are compiled by local law enforcement agencies and reflect crimes that are known to police and recorded as hate crimes by police. the second source of statistical data, which i'll focus more on today, is the bureau of justice statistics national crime crick timization survey. the ncvs is a household based survey that asks residents aged 12 or older about their experiences with crime, including crimes motivated by hate or bias. both of these collections define hate crime according to the hate crime statistics act, including crimes motivated by bias against the victim because of his or her race or ethnicity, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability. now, the way this is operationalized in the ncvs is that when a respondent answers affirmly that they experienced a violent or property crime, that respondent is then asked a series of questions about the nature of the incident, including whether they believe the incident was motivated by bias against them. the survey also asks victims whether they had any evidence that the crime was motivated by hate. in order to be classified as a victim of hate crime in

they were able to combine their facebook data, more cleverly, more carefully with other sources of data, and do a much better job of understanding what individual voters were like, who was connecting with whom, and how they could understand those conversations. senator cruz: has facebook on a hed access to data fair and evenhanded manner, allowing candidates from which ever party the same access to data? or have they been more political and partisan players in that regard? dr. jamison: i have no knowledge of that. senator cruz: i will note that carol davidson, the director of data integration and media anta litics for obama america 2012. she said, quote, facebook was surprised that we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing. she also said that facebook, quote, came to office in the days following election recruiting, and they were very candid that they allowed us to do things that they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side. so that's the head of data analytics for the obama camp

on the forms of the parties to talk about getting data to make a better analysis of the question you are raising. if you dig deep enough in one source of data, it all goes back to the fcc. how do we getr: better data? do you have suggestions for us? dr. oh? oh: we use fcc data as well. we find it is often delayed by two or three years. of that part conversation about getting better data. i would be adjusted to know how expensive it is to update data faster. money allocated for other things can be put towards maps. there are a lot of things the on, andpending on, prioritizing maps could be one of them. chairman wicker: i will go back to mr. bede -- mr. reed. no one is really happy with these maps. suggest there is a better set of data. but givenere are, our timeframe, i am happy to wayswith your staff about we can pull the data from existing sources, as well as the fact most americans are carrying a smartphone in their pocket. use all the information from access on the wireless side from the phones themselves? chairman wicker: thank you. schatz: it seems to me -- it seems to me they are switching the problems -- everyone knows their

fortunately, we used to be the unofficial source for the data, but fortunately, now congress does the data themselves. that's great, i'm out of that business. i wanted to talk briefly about a couple of things new on the site over the last year i am proud of. one is an analysis of tech corporations where we are tracking provisions moving from bill to build. there are hundreds of bills being enacted that we don't know about because provisions have been taken out of one bill and moved into an omnibus. govv trackck, -- on you can see where portions have been connected because it has been moved from one bill to another. we are also working on improvements. the button at the top right of every page translates to translate. -- translates to spanish. we are running other builds and made toings are being make congress more accessible. briefly, also, we have been on ang with a partnership facebook messenger bot and we are sending out information to some of our facebook messenger followers to know when it is a good time to move through with calling congressman and senators. calls in the last few

our customers take a lot of data from bay area status ulcers, put it together, find —— various data sourcesat does that mean for different companies? you work for a broad range of companies, the one thing they have in common is that they have customers, what do the companies want them to tell them? the main issue is we are flooded with data, there is so much data produced, it is not affected any more. for examples, we track safety issues with airlines, everything from luggage dropping to someone getting a bruise. track this together and find a pattern. certain flights are certain pilots have certain issues, we can help them. certain policies are not effective, we can change them, that is one except —— example. we can change them, that is one except -- example. it is about finding a pattern that would not be obvious if we sat down and tried to sift through the pages, what patterns can eat patterns can your sift through the pages, what patterns can your algorithms find? we had a nonprofit, they increased their donations 100% because we found which people would donate more when they were targe

the primary data sources for this performance information are service and participation data that we capture in our contract management system. it provides a detailed look, but departmental performance is also provided in the performance measures that we provide to the controller's office each year. dcyf prioritized the lowest income neighborhoods where children and youth are expected to have the greatest need. this really reflected work that was done in our community needs assessment and services allocation plan over the last two years. they're components of our five-year funding cycle. speaking a little bit about the finances, just wanted to point out that dcyf funds a large spectrum of funds, so costs vary widely. if there is one-on-one, that can be more expensive than group services. a lot of the time older youth programs particularly justice-related programs cost more and are more intensive than an after school program, for example. i know we're working to keep under 5 minutes, so wanted to flag that our website, dcyf.org, has year-end results for every program that we fund and

data for bills and legislators in congress. and fortunately, we used to be the unofficial authoritative source for that data because we were the only ones producing it. fortunately, congress now does it themselves, so this is great. i'm out of that data business. not a money-making business. so i wanted to talk really briefly about a couple of things that are new on the site over the last year that i'm really proud of. the first one, this is just a bill, so next slide, please. the first one is an analysis of text incorporation. so we're now tracking provisions that are moving from bill to bill. and so we're actually -- hundreds of bills are being enacted that we don't really know about because provisions have been taken out of one bill and moved into an omnibus, but the original bill is not marked as enacted on congress.gov or anywhere else. and now you can search all the bills that are enacted or have had portions enacted because text has moved from one bill to another. another thing that we've been work on is some accessibility improvements. there's now a button at the top right of every page to translate the site into spani

we believe efforts to utilize broadband availability data sources beyond current measures are especiallycritical in rural areas because those are the places where current data at the census block level may not accurately reflect broadband availability within the block itself. therefore, the problem is that the consolidated proeshgss act provided only 7 1/2 million to ntia through 2019 for this effort. so we are currently evaluating its options to ensure the money that is being appropriated is efficiently used. the main thing we will lose as a result of less funding is validation. in 2009 ntia received over $290 million funding to create the national broadband map and that was part of the stimulus program. that map was last updated in march of 2015. in may of 2015 fcc took over that responsibility when congress stopped appropriating funds to ntia. so that is where we stand at the moment, sir. >> okay. we will be glad to work with you on that. i'm glad you brought that up. i'm sitting by senator capita, and we appreciate her leadership and working hard. >> we are glad to get broadband goin

do we have the numbers for the other reservoirs or sources of ground water supply? >> we have data on all the sources of the water supply and sources of water supply. >> from this other supply, are they similar concentrations? or different -- we have one example here. but it would be interesting to see the other sources of ground water and happy to see substantially below the maximum contaminant level as set by the state. and i would love to know that -- >> the targets that we have set which are lower than those. and nowhere near the maximum contaminant level. we can provide all the data that we have for the sources of supply and hetch hetchy and the bay area reservoirs and the groundwater recovery project as well as for this project. we will be reporting those out now new future and ongoing and that is the obligation and commit tonight the public. >> an i have one last question which is the last speaker brought up that other places they have a filtering system for the drinking water and we are pumping groundwater directly into our reservoirs. so do you have an answer for that? >>

they were able to combine facebook data more carefully with other sources of data and do a much better job of understanding what individual voters were like, who was connecting with who, and how they can understand those conversations. >> has facebook approached has facebook approached access to data on a fair and even panted matter, allowing candidates from whatever party the same access? or have they been more partisan? >> i have no knowledge of that. davison, the director of data integration for the obama for america 2012, she said, facebook was survived -- surprise that we were able to suck out the whole social graph of the did not stop us once they realized that was what we were doing. facebook camethat to office in the days following election recruiting and were very candid that they allowed us to do things that they would not have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side. that is the head of data analytics for the obama campaign saying that facebook was giving preferential treatment to the obama campaign because that is the political side they were on. did they g

this program would be to minimize these known data quality issues through the use of multiple data sources and validation, which is especially critical in rural areas where current census block liberal data may not accurately reflect broadband availability in the entire block. >> let me turn to -- thank you for your answer. let me turn to the topic that i mentioned in my opening statement. i would remind you that kansas is a leader in the production of beef, pork, wheat, soy beans. retaliatory tariffs are have a significant harm on my agricultural producers and therefore the state of kansas. we are the largest sorghum producer. about 50% is exported and 90% of those exports were sent to china. retaliatory tariffs announced by china have effectily shut down the sorghum market, meaning they are feeling the eventings now. -- effects now. much of that is being led by your department. my assumption is this will need increased funding. the department has asked for an increase of 701 million over 2018 for a single bureau, the bureau rof industry and security, bis. my question is appropriations bu

facebook data or data from other sources doesn't help much. let me explain why. first, persuasion affects decay rapidly. researchers showed that this may change a voters mind for a fleeting moment, but it goes away amidst all the other ads, news, posts, and stimuli accompanying a election season. it's hard come even with top-notch data to figure out which voters are persuadable. the reason for this is no person is persuadable all the time. persuade ability is not a stable disposition. you might be persuadable now, but not tomorrow, by one kind of message or messenger, but not another. third, persuasion is hard because when you try and figure out who is persuadable, your predictions of who is persuadable are often wrong. they are imperfect. you end up sending targeted messages to the wrong population. for example, campaigns often want to predict the racial identity of a voter. predictions of which voters are black and hispanic are wrong about 25% of the time. when a campaign sends a message targeting to these voters, a quarter of the people receiving the message a

questions, never had to return any data we would vigorously fight that the data set used was a different, you know, crowd sourcedwhere people opted into it, and it was not against their terms of service, so it's very different than what we are, and we are vigilant about saying this is about your experience of learning about your health and being proactive about your, you know, learning about you, your ancestry, and health information. >> kelly, do you want to step in >> just to pick up on that, anne, dann anne, does the company do anything with the information, and do you think we need more rules about what other companies may be doing with the information? >> we, right now, when you join 23 and me, you have the opportunity of opting into research, and without that conse consent, 23 and me will not do anything you, then, decide what questions you want to ask and what questions you do not want to ask. right now, we say in the terms of service prevents, you know, law enforcement and other ways of actually using the data for the specific identifiable purposes, so we are really about empowering you to be in charge,

other than facebook, list for me the sources of all of the data that you know cambridge analytica used while you worked for them. mr. wylie: there were several different consumer data vendors that were used. sen. kennedy: can you name them? i would like you to be specific. mr. wylie: i believe experience data was used. i think acting data was used. i'm not sure, but i can get back to you on whether they contacted directly -- sen. kennedy: who else? mr. wylie: state voter firms and regulations. kennedy: who else? mr. wylie: smaller firms with specialized niche data. in terms of online data, there were experiments done on collecting other social media data like twitter that was also used. but the basis of the modeling at the time i was there was primarily using facebook data. -- putnnedy: did facebook aside for a second. the justice department, i will get to the bottom of that. did cambridge analytica obtain any of this information unlawfully while you were there? mr. wylie: i'm not a lawyer in the u.s., so i could not comment on whether it was lawful or unlawful. sen. kennedy: did they

>>> philip rob and robbi don't care if anyone buys anything in their stores they found a new source of data the treacherous world of data security and the online assault on brick and mortar retail, will their concept succeed? for more watch "your business" weekend mornings on cnbc >>> mark zuckerberg's european tour continues he's meet with french president macron in paris. karen joins us from paris with details on those meetings. >> reporter: i think mark zu zuckerberg is hoping to move on from his apology tour after apologizing last night and facing a grilling in brussels by lawmakers. today has been more friendly a summit hosted by the french president emmanuel macron who is seen as one of the most tech-friendly leaders here in europe they were treated to lunch here at the elysees palace. they've moved on to discuss things from disruptive technologies having an impact, tech literacy for all and privacy front and center here in europe as new regulation comes into place later on this week. but earlier on, the french president quipped there's no free lunch he's seeking certain concessions f

be allowed to host secure data from other sources such as private industry? >> thank you very much forto tht question. the data security piece isr vey important for us.th certainly compliance with kindle and -- hit the and high tech on port. we a process to put in place to secure the data in the enclave. it includes an annual external review from a third party that reports back to the feds and then we provide the authority to operate the enclave. we engage our cybersecurity and privacy experts and counterparts from the date you oversee this. we are very careful about data use and protections for this enclave. >> do think there's opportunity to host other secure data from other sources? >> these are things we already do a cost d.o.e. for many different reasons come from other agencies. for many different reasons. so yes, the simple answer. >> d.o.e. houses four of the top ten fastest cedric richmond world. how will providing do you read with access to the va data health benefit healthcare research specifically for veterans? >> i think what we've started to find

like to get your thoughts on that and some ideas on how we might be able to leverage that rich data source advantage and incident response. >> we have been involved in the program for several years. and you know back when we first started, it was interesting looking across the federal agencies, different levels of maturity. some had complete asset visibility. others in terms of reporting were underreporting, you know, their total assets by, you know, maybe potentially over 100%. and so, you know, today through the cdm program, i think the program has done an amazing job in terms of getting that baseline of assets configuration and other types of data sets, and we saw that in action, you know, over the past, you know, year to 18 months on attacks like, you know -- if you rewind three to five years ago, the question would come down, what's the potential impact of this level of attack? and the only way that you would get an answer is be able to go out to the agencies and conduct a bunch of data calls, correlate data on spreadsheets and at some point get an answer which probably wasn't accurat