[danso]

Technology, and those who fully understand it, is absolutely vital in not only efficient government, but in efficiently monitoring and regulating it. You'll see the difference when trying to FOIA/FOIL an agency that gets it versus one that doesn't.

There's a lot more to technology and life than spying.

[squidfood]

Indeed. A huge push in my agency is to comply with the initiative to make research data publicly available (https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-...). This isn't lip-service, we have strict local deadlines for getting data online.

The hurdles are entirely technological, almost everyone who works here (scientists anyway) love the principle.