The Telegraph report:
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has warned that the open data movement in the UK could lead to ‘open data’ becoming a substitute for ‘freedom of information’.
Speaking at the first annual Open Data Institute (ODI) summit in London, Graham said that the danger with open data is that the public only sees what the government chooses to make available – rather than the government providing data in response to specific queries.
As a result, the government could theoretically choose to publish data that casts it in a positive light, in order to detract from other data that highlights its failings.