Attached below is pictures of an article (Unlocking Data to Improve Public Policy | October 2019 | Communications of the ACM) from the October 2019 ACM on using data to formulate public policy. Using the article:

(1) What are the advantages of this type of data to construct public policy?

(2) Discuss the legal pitfalls.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/10/239676-unlocking-data-to-improve-public-policy/abstract

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES Unlocking Data to Improve Public Policy By Justine S. Hastings, Mark Howison, Ted Lawless, John Ucles, Preston White Communications of the ACM, October 2019, Vol. 62 No. 10, Pages 48-53 10.1145/3335150 SIGN IN for Full Access Comments User Name VIEW AS: SHARE: Password Forgot Password? There is a growing consensus among policymakers that bringing Create an ACM Web Account Jam high-quality evidence to bear on public policy decisions is SIGN IN essential to supporting the effective and efficient government their constituencies want and need. At the U.S. federal level, this view is reflected in a recent Congressional report by the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, which ARTICLE CONTENTS: recommends creating a data infrastructure that enables "a future Introduction in which rigorous evidence is created efficiently, as a routine part Key Insights of government operations, and used to construct effective public Conclusion policy."4 References Authors Back to Top Footnotes Key Insights Sidebar: Policy Areas in which Credit: Andrii Orlov RI 360 Has Contributed Insights Fact-based policymaking-the practice Sidebar: Recent Data-Driven of using data and research to guide policy decisions-is a promising solution Insights from Administrative to improving the effectiveness and Records efficiency of government programs. Administrative data can provide new facts to guide policy de policymakers. However, understanding the quality of MORE NEWS & OPINIONS administrative records, and integrating, The Gig Workers Taking Action transforming, and optimizing the to Regain Control of Their Data policy insights present many challenges. Reuters To overcome these challenges, we developed an integrated database of What Can the Maker Movement ive records fro Teach Us About the Digitization Rhode Island state agencies with over 800 tables and 2.7 billion records related to of Creativity? over 4 million anonymous individuals. This Sascha Friesike, Frederic Thiesse, George data supports econo Kuk learning research into policies with Time to Exhume PSP? promise to deliver higher impact per dollar and better serve Rhode Island families. Bertrand Meyer This article describes a new approach to data infrastructure for fact-based policy, developed through a ACM RESOURCES partnership between our interdisciplinary organization Research Improving People's Lives and the State of .NET Framework: Rhode Island.13 Together, we constructed RI 360, an anonymized database that integrates administrative Introduction records from siloed databases across nearly every Rhode Island state agency. The comprehensive scope of RI Courses 360 has enabled new insights across a wide range of policy areas, and supports ongoing research into improving policies to alleviate poverty and increase economic opportunity for all Rhode Island residents (see the sidebar "Policy Areas in which RI 360 Has Contributed Insights"). Our approach can guide other policymakers and researchers seeking to similarly transform and integrate administrative data to guide and mprove policy. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/10/239676-unlocking-data-to-improve-public-policy/fulltext 1/7 3/16/2021 Unlocking Data to Improve Public Policy | October 2019 | Communications of the ACM The role of administrative data in policymaking. Administrative data can be collected from the computer systems used by government agencies to run their programs. When transformed into databases that