Although the data do not support the supposedly data-driven privatizers' claims, their enthusiasm is undiminished.
Not a week passes without news of some supposedly secure data store breaking down.
An investigation has been launched into how it got the supposedly confidential data.
The evidence that the site was a swindle has been building ever since hackers downloaded its supposedly confidential data.
They supposedly manipulated data, suppressed research they didn't like, bullied colleagues, threatened editors of scientific journals, and let their political views trump their scientific instincts.
But Netflix canceled a planned second prize contest, responding to protests when researchers showed that supposedly anonymous data in the first competition could be used to identify customers.
The Care.data initiative has now been suspended for six months over fears that people could be identified from the supposedly anonymous data, which turned out to contain postcodes, dates of birth, NHS numbers, ethnicity and gender.
"Wireless customers across the country are complaining that their supposedly 'unlimited' data plans are not truly unlimited, because they are being throttled and they have not received appropriate notice," said an FCC spokesman.
These computer programmers had a huge battle to get access to this supposedly public data so we could see how our MPs voted and when our MPs had attended debates.
Nevertheless the debate was largely confined to the blogosphere – until a few weeks ago when one of the journals responsible for publishing the supposedly photoshopped data, ACS Nano, waded in with a highly critical editorial aimed squarely at bloggers.
