Finland: Lobbyists Out of the Shadows — Automatic Public Access to Registries, Keeping an eye on the murky world of lobbying with open data, digital registries, and default disclosure

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From: Open Governments, Secret Canada

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In this chapter, Malone traces Finland’s 2019 lobbying scandal into the 2023 Transparency Register, then contrasts that open-data achievement with Canada’s narrow, poorly enforced Lobbying Act.

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Matt Malone

Matt Malone is a writer, lawyer, and academic whose work explores the intersection of law and secrecy. Matt holds degrees from the University of Toronto, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and McGill University, and is currently a fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. He is the author of We Have Received a Complaint: The Fraught World of Workplace Justice and The Law of Trade Secrets and Confidential Information in Canada. Matt lives in Toronto, Ontario.