Blair Gable
Why limiting digital government data makes no sense
There’s definitely a problem here, but it isn’t some hypothetical bogeyman of nefarious types out to misrepresent the government
Yesterday Ottawa’s top cheerleader for open government data, Treasury Board president Tony Clement, declared some government data can’t be released digitally for fear it might be altered to "create havoc."
You could say some were baffled.
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