“There is no case law around an issue like this.” Subscribe: iTunes |Download |RSS |VideoA little more than a year ago, Quartz’s David Yanofsky did what many data reporters do every day: He submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for a set of statistics from a government agency. Yanofsky wanted immigration statistics about who enters the country from the International Trade Administration, the only government agency that compiles comprehensive records of this kind.The ITA got back to him and said that he was welcome to the data set — all he had to do was cut a check for $173,775.

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