>I don't have any evidence to prove otherwise, but I have a feeling that the raw data is tampered with before release... Evidence is the currency by which one

>I don't have any evidence to prove otherwise, but I have a feeling that the raw data is tampered with before release... Evidence is the currency by which one fulfills burden of proof. >Why would they up and release data all of a sudden? You just read an article listing several reasons. All government data is by default public unless related to national security and explicitly upgraded to a higher secrecy level. You could already request to view any of the information being released, but it's cheaper to start moving all public information to one location than to have every agency inconsistently implement its own information handling processes. It's extremely unlikely the government is coordinating all of its workers to tamper with public disability claims, military recruitment trends, environmental reports, geological surveys, public housing inventories, etc. before posting it on the site.