BerlinA draft law would exempt critical infrastructure from information requests.
Journalists already face locked filing cabinets on infrastructure topics, the dju journalists’ union says.
Interior minister Alexander Dobrindt’s draft amends the Freedom of Information Act, a second attempt after objections from Social Democrat lawmakers.
Germany’s data protection commissioner’s office calls the draft legally questionable.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org leans critical
- centers the revised bill's sweeping "critical infrastructure" exemptions from transparency, listing energy, water, health and telecoms
Sources: netzpolitik.org