LobbyPlag
- Logo
LobbyPlag.eu aims to make complex and opaque democratic procedures within Europe transparent, focussing on data protection legislation
- URL
- http://lobbyplag.eu
- Keywords
- data protection, leaked documents, europe, politicians, legislation, law, parliament
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2012
- Launch Date
- 2012
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- yes
- Thematic Focus
- Data
- Issue addressed
- Traceability
- Geographic Focus
- Europe
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Yes
- Timelines
- Yes
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
- Yes
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 (Germany)
- Partners
- europe-v-facebook.org
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- Small Network
- lobbyplag (1613 followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 6 Alexa: 4,328,861 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?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- https://github.com/lobbyplag
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Medium
- Team Experience
- Research
- Dedicated
- Data Science
- Dedicated
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Open Source
- Yes
- Open Data
- Yes
- Budget
- Contracting
- Risk Planning
- Sustainability Planning
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://lobbyplag.eu/governments/about
- Organise / Analyse Data
- http://lobbyplag.eu/governments/method
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