[okfn-discuss] what are the arguments against open data

Wed Oct 9 03:51:28 UTC 2013

The privacy I was talking about was privacy when creating data from some specific experiment. For example, drug tests, or surveys, or whatever. I would not want my name to be available on that data set, to show what my specific data were. Those data are not on the public record.

Gene

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 From: Susannah Sabine <susannah.sabine at gmail.com>
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I also wanted to make a comment about some concerns (as someone said often by new comers) about privacy. When countering that objection it is important to see if people are talking about privacy or obscurity. There is much information that may be considered by some to be private (names and addresses) that are already on the public record (e.g. some US state lists of gun owners). 

Just my thoughts...
Susannah
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