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In reading, “The Guiding Principles for findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data” I was able to learn about how to make data available and how to implement the use of data fairly. I believe that the information put forth by this article is incredibly important should be seen as a way to combat the rise of “fake news” in our current social and political spheres. The article stresses that data should be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable to all in order for it to be considered fair data. Although I agree completely, I cannot help but think about top secret documents and the information they hold and wonder if, because their data isn’t accessible to the greater population, if this data is considered to be illegitimate?
My fellow classmate RC comments, “ Historically, data is often tightly held and those who create data can be biased in their creation and analysis so opening up data flows will create more equitable data”. Though I agree with this statement, could we not hope that the CIA officer dealing with top secret documents would better analyze the data than I would? Because I do not have access to it does it make it that much more likely to be open to biases?