Legalbrief - Secrecy Bill creates pitfall for open content policy
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"The controversial Protection of Information Bill aims to regulate the classification, protection and dissemination of state information, weighing state interests against transparency and freedom of expression....[C]ritics have argued the proposed law would be detrimental to transparent governance as it allows for too widely granted power to classify documents as secret. The Bill also appears to run counter to established government policy concerning open content - the name applied to content that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a single organisation, company or individual...."