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by newswasboring 1598 days ago
> An organisation that publishes flight data and charges for it, is incentivised to produce accurate, timely data about flights.

Depends on who pays, right? If their only consumers are insurance companies, they are incentivized to keep data in a way which is favorable to insurance companies (there are lies, big lies and statistics kind of deal). I believe this is what lead to the sub prime mortgage crisis.