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by axanoeychron 4407 days ago
For the EU requirement to check if information is in the public interest, we have to have guards against the system being abused, such as wealthy people removing information about themselves.

This implies some sort of public record - to provide transparency of the requests and check for abuse. This could not be indexed either because it would reveal the information that people were trying to stop being revealed.

Dilemma.

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Are these guards against abuse anything like the "guards against abuse" that the English presumably have to prevent abuse of super-injunctions by multi-millionare footballers?
It would seem that applying a law in spirit is incompatible with human nature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law