HI everybody,
the difficult part here is that Freedom of Information is a huge term that
regularly cascades into privacy and freedom of speech discussions. I
nevertheless believe that for the sake of the survey it means "right to
know" rather than "right to privacy" (although the two are of course
connected).
I think that by Freedom of Information, for the purposes of this report, we
are talking about the laws giving the general public access to government
documents and data (i.e. open government and open records) and not so much
about private/anonymous editing. Thus being said, the relevant overview
article woud be "FoI laws by country" [1].
Dimi
[
Amgine wrote:
... You're okay with allowing parts of governments to browse/edit
privately, but not make this service general to all?
When I asked for universal private browsing, Foundation Legal staff
accused me of trying to frustrate the NSA. I am not sure whether there
has been a reply to my question about how asking them to come in to
compliance with the law is more frustrating than helpful to them. In
the mean time, I would rather address specific instances of government
attempts to conceal information by editing Wikipedia. Again, this is a
very eventualist attitude and I worry that it may be too eventualist.
Best regards,
James Salsman
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
2013/10/22 James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)gmail.com>om>:
I would be very interested to learn your thoughts
on the top priorities.
It could be fun exercise to ask you how long it takes for the average
brain to connect the topic of Freedom of Information with specific
editing behaviour of government employees in Wikipedia. I am afraid of
the answer.
Mathias
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