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Originally Posted by BBKing
1) Information isn't stored 'under' it, it's stored anyway, the Act merely enables us to ask for it, under certain restrictions of cost and national interest.
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Sorry that should have read... " Let's release all information stored, under the FOIA "
You say it should be independent, but in reality, it is already. Charlie Falconer can't personally approve every FOIA request that is recieved. They have to get delegated and given to other departments.
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4) Why have a system specifically designed to protect *people* rather than *secrets*?
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Well, because people can die, but secrets can't? Would you be happy if information of paedophiles was released under the FOIA? You are against Megan's/Sarah's law aren't you?
Of course there is scope for abuse here, but the way your original post was written is that all censorship and clearinghouses of information are wrong. But that's just crazy, information needs to be censorsed from the public domain.