The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that commercial or financial information is considered “confidential” under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Exemption 4 when it is “customarily and actually” treated as private by its owner and is provided to the government under an “assurance of privacy.”
On June 28, 2019, the Kirov Regional Court of Yekaterinburg City shut down administrative proceedings to add a satirical newspaper article to Russia’s unified registry of prohibited content.
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and to advance understanding of the norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression.
