Re:UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agen...
by mytailorisrich on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:42AM
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Accountability and obligation to disclose information on demand to the public are two different things.
Not all of DARPA's work is public, yet I'm sure that DARPA is fully accountable.
By excluding this new agency from FOI the UK government simply wants to be able to decide which projects to publicise and when, and which projects to keep secret, in the same way as DARPA operates.
Not all of DARPA's work is public, yet I'm sure that DARPA is fully accountable.
By excluding this new agency from FOI the UK government simply wants to be able to decide which projects to publicise and when, and which projects to keep secret, in the same way as DARPA operates.