{"id":192562,"date":"2009-03-19T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/19\/what-have-they-got-to-hide-2\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:29:00","slug":"what-have-they-got-to-hide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/19\/what-have-they-got-to-hide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Have They Got To Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s the Federal Aviation Administration, which has a proposed rule to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/18\/324033\/faa-to-block-public-access-to-raw-bird-strike-data.html\">block public access to raw bird strike data<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The FAA says requests for data from the public &#8220;have typically been for specific data fields, individual airports or detailed portions of the database&#8221; and that responses from the agency &#8220;have addressed each request individually and adequately&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, the agency cautions public analysis of bits and pieces of the data could lead to inaccurate portrayals of airports and airlines, which could have a negative impact on their participation in reporting bird strikes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, they are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">saying<\/span> that think that ordinary people are too stupid to understand the data.<\/p>\n<p>More likely, they are covering something up, like certain airports being having a lot more problems with bird strikes, and the FAA, which is tasked with both <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">regulating<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">promoting<\/span> aviation, finds this information inconvenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s the Federal Aviation Administration, which has a proposed rule to block public access to raw bird strike data: The FAA says requests for data from the public &#8220;have typically been for specific data fields, individual airports or detailed portions of the database&#8221; and that responses from the agency &#8220;have addressed each &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1010,985,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-bureaucracy","category-regulation","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}