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Here's the thing though - all the data should already be available as a free database, just like all NASA photos are public domain.

Then let people mine it on their own dime for waste.

The problem is they'd react to this by finding ways to make more and more stuff "classified" to claim it cannot be released.



NYC would appear to be a shining example of this: http://www.nyc.gov/data




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