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It has happened many times over, and it will doubtlessly happen again. Each time government data is freed, citizens gain useful access to valuable information that rightly belongs to them. But perhaps more importantly, government is forced to deal with the new reality of a networked world in which the people demand free online access to public information. Data is liberated by hacking government. Because of how the popular press has used it, the word hack is often misunderstood to mean only illicit access to computer networks.