J-Walk Blog: Freedom Of Information
"In the UK, a new Freedom of Information Act takes effect at the beginning of 2005. To prepare, government officials are keeping real busy. From The Independent: Shredded: Hundreds of thousands of government documents.
Hundreds of thousands of secret Whitehall files are being shredded before the public gains the right to see them under the Freedom of Information Act on 1 January.
Figures obtained by The Independent show a dramatic escalation in the destruction of confidential papers before the new rights of access come into force. Whitehall departments, including the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), have almost doubled the number of files they have destroyed since the Freedom of Information Act became law."
Ah. Gotta love governments. :(
Hundreds of thousands of secret Whitehall files are being shredded before the public gains the right to see them under the Freedom of Information Act on 1 January.
Figures obtained by The Independent show a dramatic escalation in the destruction of confidential papers before the new rights of access come into force. Whitehall departments, including the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), have almost doubled the number of files they have destroyed since the Freedom of Information Act became law."
Ah. Gotta love governments. :(
posted by Monkeyman @ 12/26/2004 Perm Link
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