You’re tarring a wide group with the same brush here. I quite accept that the data.gov group arent radiating sensitivity about reidentifiable data. But what’s this attack on “ideagov types”? You can see very clearly the difference stance on public data and personal data. We’ve always been very clear and strong on the need for entirely different and stronger protection of personal data.

Tim K and I agree to differ on this.

Precis: idealgov types have convinced us that making government information public is good; so whenever it is the public interest (i.e. officially expedient) we are going to make personal information into government information, which is the same thing. That’s what you wanted, isn’t it?