The country only has one ISP, the state-owned Ethio Telecom, and has been filtering its citizen's Internet access for quite some time now to suppress opposition blogs and other news outlets.
If the director wants this immunity provision, let him explain why an American citizen's senator can have access to critical intelligence documents but his representative cannot.
A group of press advocacy groups working with Unesco recently published an open letter advocating the passage of a freedom of information law, writing, "We still lack the legal mechanism that guarantees the citizen's right to have access to information".
The EU has been trying to limit the US government's access to EU citizens' data stored in the US and to allow EU citizens to sue US companies in US courts should they misuse their data.
Other factors cited by the ICO in its appeal for more funding include NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks about GCHQ's access to British citizens' data, and the government-led Care.data project, with its plans to give GPs and hospitals access to shared databases of people's healthcare records also running into opposition.
We believe our presence in a country that restricts freedom of expression significantly benefits a country's citizens through access to services and information.
Since only about one-third of Myanmar's citizens have access to electricity from the mains, the government is also demanding that the country's domestic needs be met first.
Resorts are largely off limits to local people, creating ghettos of privilege and exclusion for foreign visitors, but depriving the island's citizens of access to their own best beaches.
And indeed, even further tightens the security screw in some instances — such as by extending police access to UK citizen's web browsing records for specific crimes, as the Guardian has noted.
