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Commissioner Cavoukian urges public institutions to join global Open Data movement |
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TORONTO, September 20, 2012 - Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, is calling on public institutions to take advantage of emerging technologies to make data available to the public, academics, researchers, and industry, for use in new and unanticipated ways. As long as personally identifiable information is protected from such disclosure, the open data movement bodes very well for introducing greater transparency to government institutions.
The global movement towards Open Data makes vast amounts of machine-readable data freely available by way of portals, metadata, and search tools. It is one of the truest embodiments of Commissioner Cavoukian’s concept of
Access by Design, by which public institutions proactively release information as part of an automatic process, fostering more transparency and accountability in government. |
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Sep 20, 2012 |
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