government data

Lending rates fell again Friday, but as the cost of borrowing eases, some government data suggest private lending is not expanding.

The most extensive report ever compiled on government data mining in hopes of detecting terrorists concludes the idea is "neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts."

In the 1990s, Carl Malamud prompted the SEC and Patent Office to put their databases online. Now he's focusing more broadly on liberating government data, which is often sold for a princely sum.

The Arctic holds some 90bn barrels of oil, equal to Russia's known reserves, according to US government data.

Indian government data obtained by the BBC reveals the full impact of price rises there.