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.In addition to the administrative burden, it appears to ignore the fact that non-sensitive information, in sufficient quantity and correlation, becomes sensitive information.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.