Ontario Premier Doug Ford, afraid of honesty, is changing the Freedom of Information Act to block requests of his Ministers and their staff, and so that even existing requests already in process can be dropped.

Sme of the things which would never have been uncovered under this new law:
🚩2025 Ford govt changing laws to remove just 900 metres of bike lanes
🚩2024 Ford govt trying to sell Greenbelt land using a Gmail account
🚩2022 Ford govt cancelled COVID update interview with Minister of Health because it was the Star asking
🚩2002 Harris govt lied about Indigenous burial ground at Ipperwash

Every government in Canada is too secretive. This new law is a several steps backward.

https://www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=3458628f-f03c-47fd-840f-faaa077e6087

#ONPoli #GiftLink #FOIA

grazie a @danielaranieri

per aver citato il mio libro #IlPotereSegreto e grazie per la sua intelligente rassegna stampa!

https://youtu.be/zOGc_fnhlRg?is=xZkSFgf8UUKTydnq

Il mio libro è ora disponibile in versione completamente aggiornata al rilascio di #JA e nuove scoperte con battaglia legale #FOIA

More than €110,000 in taxpayer funds went down the drain after a courthouse water leak went undetected for over two years.

An internal audit said the Courts Service had faced excess water charges of nearly €2,900 per month, although the OPW has since carried out repairs.

The Courts Service said the sky-high costs were caused by “a significant unseen water leak” and “pipe defects” in a very old building with antiquated plumbing.

https://www.thestory.ie/2026/04/01/undetected-leak-in-old-courthouse-sees-courts-service-hit-with-excess-water-charges-of-over-e110000/

#ireland #energy #water #foia

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#DocumentDriven #FOIA #PublicRecords #Transparency #Accountability

More than 100 complaints made to the Data Protection Commission (DPC) remain unresolved more than five years after they were lodged.

The DPC said there were 111 cases dating from May 2018 to 2020 that have still not been finalised.

There were a further 102 complaints received in 2021 that are still open, according to data released under FOI.

https://www.thestory.ie/2026/03/27/data-protection-commission-says-111-complaints-that-are-at-least-five-years-old-are-still-unresolved/

#ireland #gdpr #data #foia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116291481277113705

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#privacy #medicare #eff #foia #ai

Gardaí were paid more than €189 million in overtime last year with some members cashing in to the tune of more than €50,000 each.

One inspector was able to earn an extra €65,008 on top of their ordinary salary, according to FOI records.

https://www.thestory.ie/2026/03/25/bill-of-e189-million-for-overtime-for-members-of-an-garda-last-year-with-one-inspector-earning-e65000-in-extra-pay/

#ireland #police #justice #foia

when 2 Italian MPs,#StefaniaAscari and #DanielaMorfino,asked to know how many Italian citizens served in #IDF during the #genocide, the Meloni government stated it didn't know it, a #FOIA request revealed by #DeclassifiedUK allowed us to know it

[Italian]

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2026/03/24/i-numeri-sergreti-dellidf-sono-828-gli-italiani-arruolati-che-hanno-combattuto-anche-a-gaza/8334132/?_gl=1*l94gxy*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjA1OTQyODkzNC4xNzc0MzQ1OTQ3*_ga_VVW6R6G7D3*czE3NzQzNDU5NDYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzQzNDU5NDYkajYwJGwwJGgw

vi voglio raccontare un'altra curiosa coincidenza sul #FOIA:

da oltre 2 anni cerco di ottenere contratto #Gemelli-#Palantir,senza successo. La scorsa settimana,imbufalita,verifico la possibilità di un'azione legale con #FOIA: il giorno stesso #Palantir mi ha risposto

è curioso che quando le parlamentari #StefaniaAscari e #DanielaMorfino hanno chiesto al governo #Meloni quanti cittadini italiani erano nell'#IDF durante #genocidioGaza, il governo non lo sapeva, mentre un #FOIA l'ha rivelato, come vi ricostruiamo oggi:

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2026/03/24/i-numeri-sergreti-dellidf-sono-828-gli-italiani-arruolati-che-hanno-combattuto-anche-a-gaza/8334132/?_gl=1*l94gxy*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjA1OTQyODkzNC4xNzc0MzQ1OTQ3*_ga_VVW6R6G7D3*czE3NzQzNDU5NDYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzQzNDU5NDYkajYwJGwwJGgw