Access to information : legal issues
Epstein, Earl F.
With abstract in English.
Access to personal and geographical information depends on law, economics and culture, as well as technology. Law and the legal process determine the extent of disclosure or confidentiality of data and information. For example, freedom of information and open records laws provide for disclosure of information about government activity. Confidentiality is maintained through specific exceptions to disclosure provided by the records law. Other laws protect the private commodity aspect of data and information, or are sought in order to make data the constructive property of the public agency that generates or holds it. Together, these and other issues indicate that access to data and information is determined by public policy, as well as technological potential, in a complex balancing process.
Event: FIG XIXth International Congress of Surveyors
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