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Am I crazy? Aren't FOIA requests, by definition, public information?

• dumbfounder 8y ago
  This happened in Canada. They might have a FOIA equivalent, but I wouldn't assume it has the same rules as in the US.
  • codefined 8y ago
    In the UK and most of Europe, you cannot request the personal information of anyone else via a freedom of information request, since it is likely to contain sensitive information to that person. For the UK, you can find out more information about the specifics of this from the data protection act, which includes clauses about FOI requests.
  • Kelbit 8y ago
    In this case, most of the documents were public, but there were a small number which had confidential information and were inappropriately stored on the public portal.
• deleted 8y ago
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