[open-government] Fwd: [foianet] Cease and desist order issued against German FOI portal Frag den Staat

Wed Jan 22 14:12:09 UTC 2014

Very interesting case and  intruiging steps by the BMI (German Home Office).

Good luck to Daniel and the others fighting this prima facie rather
ridiculous viewpoint by BMI.

best,
Ton

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> FYI
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Zara Rahman <zara.rahman at okfn.org>
> Date: 22 January 2014 11:35
> Subject: [foianet] Cease and desist order issued against German FOI portal
> Frag den Staat
> To: foianet at lists.foiadvocates.info
> Cc: Stefan Wehrmeyer <stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org>
>
>
>  Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to let you know of an exciting FOI development here in Germany
> - the German Ministry of the Interior has issued Frag den Staat<https://fragdenstaat.de/>,
> (a German FOI portal run by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany) with a
> cease and desist order, for publishing a document on EU party quotas which
> they obtained under the FOI law.
>
> More details about this here:
> http://blog.fragdenstaat.de/post/74158554995/cease-and-desist-by-the-german-government-for
> in English, and here:
> https://fragdenstaat.de/presse/2014-01-21-bmi-mahnt-fragdenstaat-ab/ in
> German.
>
> If you'd like more information or to help on the campaign (we'd love to
> raise awareness about this globally!) - please get in touch with project
> lead, Stefan Wehrmeyer on stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org
>
> Thanks!
>
> Zara
>
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