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1. Knowledge
 
  1.2 Accuracy, Privacy, Security, and management  
  Article 48-Freedom of access to personal digital information  
48.1 Freedom of access to personal digital information  
  An individual by rights of ownership of their own personal information shall have the right to request and receive access to the files storing their personal information by any institution, individual or government agency.
 
  The granting of permission subject to national security issues should always be on the basis that it is the moral duty and responsibility of a custodian of someones information to provide freedom of access to that individual upon their request.
 
  To deny a person access to their own property is considered immoral and unprincipled and therefore freedom of information shall always be the sign of an enlightened society.
 
     
 
 

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