[zkmon]

> If followed, this order will destroy the Commerce public data our nation relies on for important decisions, such as where to build necessary services for our community’s well-being

So this is not about privacy. Scott sounds like a computer scientist forced (by the American ecosystem) to become a bombastic talker.

[dmvdoug]

Can’t release data sets if they can’t be sufficiently anonymized so as to avoid Privacy Act/other non-disclosure statutes. Can’t anonymize data sets sufficiently if you’re banned from using the techniques data people use when anonymizing data sets. Not that difficult to follow.

[Sniffnoy]

This is guest post by Cynthia Dwork; that's Dwork's writing, not Aaronson's.