By Ingrid Bachmann
Venezuela's Supreme Court emphasized one more time that freedom of expression is not an absolute right, and established various limitations to access to governmental information, reported El Tiempo.
The ruling states that the magnitude of the required data must be proportionate to the usefulness the information will give. It also states that wages and asset declarations of public employees are private, explained El Universal.
According to El Carabobeño, hours before the opinion was made known, representatives of the National Journalists Guild, the National Union of Press Workers, and the NGO Public Space presented to the Supreme Court an action for annulment of the creation of the Situational Study Center of the Nation. The groups believe, reported El Nacional, that this center would serve to control information and arbitrarily declare public data private.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
