Is Too Much Information Really a Bad Thing?

An article on the Guardian website asks whether collecting too much information on innocent people makes it harder to catch the guilty.
At a certain point, data gathered to predict the weather overwhelms your capacity to add it to your

calculations efficiently, resulting in ever-longer runtimes that give less accurate predictions. It’s better to crunch [...]

Urban Planning 2.0, Nanaimo and Google

Time.com has an insightful piece on a collaboration between the city of Nanaimo and  Google. The city’s planning department has been feeding the search giant information on it’s public infrastructure for the last five years. Having launched just a few weeks ago, Nanaimo is being hailed as the "Google Capital of the World."
The site [earth.nanaimo.ca] [...]