On Oct 8, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Karsten Gerloff <gerl...@fsfeurope.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 03:25:30PM -0700, Gene Shackman wrote: >> Ewan Klein asked an excellent question on identifying specific >> demonstrations of the benefits of open data. That made me wonder about a >> related question: what are the arguments against open data? > > In practice, the main argument I've heard against open data is > that it might harm privacy. Individual human privacy and security, cultural sensitivity, and national security come to mind as reasons against open public sector or individual private data. > This is usually raised by people who > are new to the field, and is for the most part easily countered. While I would not consider myself completely new to the field, I would love to know the arguments that would counter the above reasons. -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss