Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data
There is no shortage of discussion of President Obama’s executive order that is alleged to result in greater access to government data.
Except then you read:
Agencies shall implement the requirements of the Open Data Policy and shall adhere to the deadlines for specific actions specified therein. When implementing the Open Data Policy, agencies shall incorporate a full analysis of privacy, confidentiality, and security risks into each stage of the information lifecycle to identify information that should not be released. These review processes should be overseen by the senior agency official for privacy. It is vital that agencies not release information if doing so would violate any law or policy, or jeopardize privacy, confidentiality, or national security.
Gee, I wonder who is going to decide what information gets released?
How would we know when “open data” efforts succeed?
Here’s my test: When ordinary citizens can mine open data and their complaints result in the arrest and conviction of public officials or government staff.
Unless and until that sort of information is public data, you are being distracted from important data by platitudes and flattery.
[…] I wonder if Sofia simply overlooked: When implementing the Open Data Policy, agencies shall incorporate a full analysis of privacy, confidentiality, and security risks into each stage of the information lifecycle to identify information that should not be released. These review processes should be overseen by the senior agency official for privacy. It is vital that agencies not release information if doing so would violate any law or policy, or jeopardize privacy, confidentiality, or national security. [From “We won’t get fooled again…”] […]
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