Feds begin making public index of ‘all’ databases government compiles

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Catalogs showing databases the federal government collects and tracks are being published this week, thanks to the efforts of a transparency advocacy group, but at least 10 agencies still need to comply, following the recently added indexes of the General Services Administration and the Small Business Association.

The indexes, called Enterprise Data Inventories, are slowly being put online as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Sunlight Foundation.

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