LobbyPlag

	LobbyPlag.eu aims to make complex and opaque democratic procedures within Europe transparent, focussing on data protection legislation
Home page	http://lobbyplag.eu
Approach	LobbyPlag uses publically available and leaked data to rank countries and politicians on their work on data protection legislation, also publishing and highlighting the changes made to legislative documents over time
Phase	Released
Tags	data protection, leaked documents, europe, politicians, legislation, law, and parliament
Practices	Collect
Partners	europe-v-facebook.org

Project Start Date	2012
Launch Date	2012
Most Recent Update	2015
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Data
Issue addressed	Traceability
Geographic Focus	Europe

Experience

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Description

Summary of the project and its approach

Approach (How?)	LobbyPlag uses publically available and leaked data to rank countries and politicians on their work on data protection legislation, also publishing and highlighting the changes made to legislative documents over time
Language	English
Commissioner	Self-commissioned
Publisher	OpenDataCity

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Small Network Twitter : (1613 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 6 Alexa: 4328861 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 47 /100 Marketing Grader Rank: () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : High Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : LobbyPlag analysis has been widely reported and mentioned alongside Max Schrems's court case against Facebook Ireland over transfer of data to the US intelligence services Last updated : 23/12/2015 Attempts against the project : /

Technology

What tools and code were used to create the project?

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Team

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Team Size : Medium Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : Dedicated Engineering : Dedicated Design : Dedicated

Project Methodology

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Documented Practices

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Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : Complex Ethical Collection : Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Trained Collectors Data Collection : Data Verification : Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Statistical Data Description : Basic Data Licensing : Open Ethical Publishing : Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode :