Why the GovLab's director is wrong about open data and the FOIA - Technical.ly Brooklyn

"In the piece, Noveck doesn’t go so far as to suggest the end of the FOIA — she concludes that the FOIA and open data can supplement each other — but she does suggest that the FOIA is a fossil of analog times and should be treated as such, and that open data is in practice and theory a preferable means for obtaining information."