>The amount of meta-work required to consolidate and annotate data we collect, in order to prepare it for public consumption, seems likely to hurt government ef

>The amount of meta-work required to consolidate and annotate data we collect, in order to prepare it for public consumption, seems likely to hurt government efficiency. As a data analyst working for a state government, not consolidating or creating metadata really hurts my efficiency. I've gotten too comfortable with munging tables in PDFs. >it appears to ignore the fact that non-sensitive information, in sufficient quantity and correlation, becomes sensitive information This is something we're trying to figure out. The problem is, I doubt many agencies are actually maintaining privacy with their publications. The Census is adopting differential privacy strategies [0], but my own agency relies on practices from the days of printed reports. I know for a fact some of them don't work, but government is slow to adapt. [0]: https://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/why-census-bureau-adopted-differential-privacy-2020-census-population https://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/why-census-bureau-adop...