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by dragonwriter 1125 days ago
> The UK government will never pass legislation to increase transparency to their own conduct (I doubt any government would)

Lots of governments do.

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Can you share more? I'm interested in both success stories and failed attempts.
The whole set of overlapping classes of “freedom of information”, “open meeting”, and “sunshine”/“digital sunshine” laws are all laws adopted by various jurisdictions directed at the transparency of government operations and official conduct within certain bounds.