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I can't disclose that information yet.

Several of those incidents have never been made public.

Time for a little transparency. Let's see what's really going on. What is he doing?

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And in all 42 cases where we have pushed back such demands using existing and legitimate tools

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Well, I usually don't make a habit of giving civilians

It is our policy not to give out personal information.

Now, I'm a pop culture critic, I'm a feminist and I'm a woman.

So we actually used the Right to Information Act, which is equal to the Freedom of Information Act in the United States, and pushed back the officers in this particular case.

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So this was a story in Kenya a few years ago.

And I made a Freedom of Information application in May this year to the Ministry of Finance.

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So now they're asking for his personnel files.

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And Alaveteli.com is a way for us to have an open database for Freedom of Information applications, and speak with each other.

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And I started this project alone in a garage in New Orleans, but quickly after I wanted to publish and share this information, so I made a Kickstarter, which is a crowd fundraising platform, and in about one month we fundraised 30,000 dollars.

The Central Bank in which we stand this morning is immune from the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

The fact is that most of the biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden.

If you picture the reporting process as depicted by a triangle, one side will be official sources, another side will be overview sources, and a third side will be unofficial sources.

It also is the first species to have its own website encoded in its genetic code.

The Ministry of Finance, we are told, is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

It's a study at Harvard where, at the end of the study, they're going to take my entire genomic sequence, all of my medical information, and my identity, and they're going to post it online for everyone to see.

We got report of a suspicious vehicle at the first bomb site. Describe it.

Last point, intelligence community the muscle and the defense agencies go this way.

It's a worry isn't it? that the rest of the world's media is doing such a bad job that a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information than the rest of the world press combined.

If it's right and proper for us to use the Freedom of Information Act and to use the court to force a disclosure about 60 million dollars in public money, it must be right and proper for us to force a disclosure about 24 billion dollars.

We have the support of governments now behind us.

Michael made public a lot of delicate information.

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Working with a very marginalised community that I work with we were aware that Facebook is not private at all.

The point is, that person made a career out of using the Freedom of Information Act to advance his cause.

Now wouldn't it be amazing, and really, this is what I want all of you to think about, if we had an Official Disclosure Act where officials were punished if they were found to have suppressed or hidden information that was in the public interest?

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