How many stars
For leaving the laptop with all the unencrypted data on it in the pub ?
The government’s long-awaited Open Data white paper, published this morning, introduces standards for “higher data usability”, according to the minister in charge. Frances Maude made the claim in the paper, available here, that was published following an extended period of consultation on how government data should be released …
When Apple lost an iPhone Prototype that way, two policeman and two Apple Security people went searching.
The policemen stood outside (they had no warrant) while the Apple Security violated the 4th Amendment of the Constitution*.
Condensed version: Two Stars with a Fascist Control Freak Cluster.
* To be fair and balanced, this is not an official Apple Document unless some Patent Troll gets hold of it.
"Under the paper, public data from different departments about the same subject will be published using the same standard formats with the same definitions."
Well colour me impressed!
Will the magic wand used to achieve this also be waved over the different offices and/or systems within any given department too? That would have made things a lot easier for various DW endeavours I've known of.