Posted by Michael Mulley on Feb 26, 2013; 8:27pm URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/The-case-for-context-in-defining-Open-Data-tp5474p5490.html
> Given that there is an underlying bias that open is desirable,
> shouldn't there be a discussion about what conditions make
> openness desirable or not.
Oh, for sure!
We've had a bunch of discussions here before about whether specific examples of released data were good or bad, and these are usually very interesting. An attempt to formulate a broader list of conditions that might make openness undesirable could likewise be interesting.
My & others' objections, I think, were to muddying definitional waters, and to the Weenusk example, which seems to me not a question of whether data should be open but whether it should've been collected in the first place (and then, if one answers no to this question, whether it should be kept private -- its licensing doesn't seem like the relevant question here).