Privacy advocates have criticized information-sharing bills as surveillance bills by another name.
Some privacy groups criticized the information commissioner's action as a slap on the wrist.
The Bedi case is not the first time that the Queens district attorney's office has been criticized for withholding information, causing a conviction to be reversed.
Tommy G. Thompson, the health secretary, and other officials were criticized for giving information that many believed should have come from medical professionals.
Yahoo was widely criticized for sharing information with the Chinese authorities on the activity of Mr. Shi's e-mail account — as well as similar information about another Chinese dissident, Wang Xiaoning.
The news brought a sigh of relief from the Southeastern Conference office, which was widely criticized for withholding information on the Newton case for months, and from Auburn, which gets to keep its national championship.
Daniel Fernández, HidroAysén's chief executive officer, criticized dam opponents' "information distortion" tactics, including statements by the writer Luis Sepúlveda that the transmission line would carve a path of "23,000 soccer stadiums, one after the other" through Patagonia.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (AP) — The Pentagon said Tuesday that it would shut down a database that had been criticized for including information on antiwar protesters and others whose actions posed no threat to military facilities and personnel.
Yahoo!, for example, was criticized for providing information (stored outside of China) about its users to officials in Beijing.
As Mathew Ingram points out, "it's hard to see why Klout should be criticized for collecting information about people based on their public web activity".
Victims' advocates praised the release of information, but criticized the archdiocese for failing to name all the priests.
