At the always- valuable Crooked Timber, a rueful polemic on the follies of a popular movement makes good reading, even if you don't agree:
The open data movement is a hammer which has gathered the support of
many nails. There are the curious taxpayers, who feel their annual
checks mean they deserve a peek at the interesting facts the government
has collected. There are the ambitious business owners, who see an
opportunity to privatize profits from work with socialized costs. And
there are the self-styled activists, who believe that if we reveal the
data on what the government is really doing, we will arrest corruption
by exposing it to sunlight.
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