In other realms, we don't call this data but intelligence. Humans will still make the decisions, but in more and more places, the decisions are more likely to be informed by data (intelligence).
Consider that Netflix's data is tiny compared to the amount of data that any government must sift through. Algorithms don't make government decisions, people do. But they (hopefully) base those decisions based on intelligence (some of) which was gathered and filtered by algorithms, then synthesized by humans.
Consider that Netflix's data is tiny compared to the amount of data that any government must sift through. Algorithms don't make government decisions, people do. But they (hopefully) base those decisions based on intelligence (some of) which was gathered and filtered by algorithms, then synthesized by humans.