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

[Ton Zijlstra]

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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