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Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline Klosek , a Certified Information Privacy Professional, is an attorney with Goodwin Procter LLP in New York City, where she practices in the Intellectual Property Transactions and Strategies Practice Area. Her practice focuses on advising clients on cutting-edge issues related to the intersection of law and technology, with a particular focus on data privacy and security. She is the author of three books. Klappentext An attorney and certified information privacy professional offers a resource book for citizens seeking to understand, use, and defend their right to know under freedom of information laws in the United States. The Right to Know: Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States sets out in plain language freedom-of-information best practices for ordinary citizens, activist organizations, journalists, bloggers, and lawyers. Jacqueline Klosek, an expert in U.S. information law, educes practical lessons from dozens of case studies to show how readers can use freedom of information laws to protect themselves, but also to protect the environment, and public health and safety, as well as to expose governmental and corporate crime, waste, and corruption. Finally, the book shows American readers how, in contrast to what is going on in most democracies, their right to know is being progressively curtailed, why this is so dangerous to democracy, and what they can do to help reverse the alarming trend. Zusammenfassung An attorney and certified information privacy professional offers a resource book for citizens seeking to understand! use! and defend their right to know under freedom of information laws in the United States.
