> Further, the idea that sleuths (amateur seems pejorative in this case) are working with city governments to battle corruption does not hold up to Matt's (or o

> Further, the idea that sleuths (amateur seems pejorative in this case) are working with city governments to battle corruption does not hold up to Matt's (or other journalists) experience. Yes, exactly this. History has shown that government employees and officials, being human, are reluctant to dig into, nevermind snitch about matters that may impugn their own colleagues. That a random citizen, or even a journalist, could convince law enforcement to go to a judge based on trends found via analysis of anonymized hashes is unrealistic. Nevermind that it effectively denies the benefits of transparency to anyone who isn't trained in data science.