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Perhaps the solution is for the new policy to be that these datasets be kept online (e.g. gcloud) with public, anonymous read-only users.

Then the entire problem is solved.

This is already done with a number of data-sets and should be the gold-standard.

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The problem is that at least some of the freedom of information requests conflicted with privacy rights.

That would be the major fundamental problem, yes. Another more logistical (but still very important) problem would be the costs of availability.

Digitizing, categorizing, paying for storage, etc, could create a spending issue.

The solution is called automated anonymisation of data.

Oh, in that case.. sounds so simple! Nothing could go wrong here.

Definitely complicated, but that should be the gold standard to aim for in the future. A lot is possible that hasn't even been tried yet!