President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill
I am deeply afraid of the impact of this law. The amount of meta-work required to consolidate and annotate data we collect, in order to prepare it for public consumption, seems likely to hurt government efficiency.<p>In addition to the administrative burden, it appears to ignore the fact that non-sensitive information, in sufficient quantity and correlation, becomes sensitive information.<p>Perhaps my skepticism is misplaced, but my initial reaction is that this sounds better in the abstract than it will turn out to be in practice.