> You asked "how could the government do this"? Come on, bro.
And you gave a generic link showing that they could share "data" in general. Not this kind of data.
Like "come on bro" both Ireland and the EU already have generic data portals...
> The linked article explains where they were getting the data before.
Yes, from the company who choose to share the data. There's no way to get the date from inside the company. In order for the government to publish the data they need to rely on the very same private company to supply them with it indefinitely, don't they? Again, "come on bro"...
>but to do it themselves would require mandating Google to share the data with them to begin with
The data was already public