When it comes to addressing access and privacy issues, in many ways they're different sides of the same coin.
What we've said on the privacy side is that as governments are establishing programs that may collect or use citizens' personal information, even at the very conceptual stage they need to start asking the right questions--i.e., how can we protect the privacy and confidentiality and security of this information?
We're suggesting that the same approach be taken on the access side. In other words, as a government ministry establishes a program or is embarking on an exercise that will be creating or collecting data, we're suggesting that they ask those same questions: what are we collecting, and should we be making this public? Sometimes I'm not sure those questions are asked at the outset of a program. What are we collecting, and what should we be making public? Build into the system an access system right from the start.
If those approaches are taken, I think concerns about personal information will also be addressed.