The All Points Blog alerted me to this NPR piece about withholding critical infrastructure data. The NPR audio piece uses a case in Greenwich, CT to make its point; we have our own very similar case right here in New Jersey (see " Robert Tombs v. Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority").

None of this is news for the GIS community, of course. The noteworthy part is the unsurprisingly increasing number of such cases across the country. Towards the end of the NPR segment Sean Gorman of FortiusOne predicts that the flood of geographic information these days may simply overwhelm attempts to control it. Gorman proceeds to call such attempts a "Sisyphean task."