Women were significantly involved in advocating the passing of India's Right to Information Act (2005).

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Nepal adopted its Right to Information Act in 2006, with great expectations for improved government transparency and accountability.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN KATHMANDU

Good access could be greatly aided with information friendly policies, and a solid implementation of freedom of information act (FOIA) or right to information act (RTI).

UNESCO: World Press Freedom Day 2012

Sanjay Bapat, founder of IndianNGOs.com, says NGOs played a big role in the passage of the Right to Information Act, which lets citizens find out how members of parliament are spending taxpayer funds, among other things.

FORBES: Magazine Article

MI5, for instance, has not even bothered to register under the Data Protection Act, which gives people the right to see information about themselves held on computers.

ECONOMIST: MI5

Twitter's lawyers argued that the judge had misunderstood how the service worked, noting that the Stored Communications Act gave its members the right to challenge requests for information on their user history.

BBC: Twitter resists US court's demand for Occupy tweets

Now the Court will be tackling the question of whether corporations have the right of private citizens when it comes to privacy protection for individuals under the Freedom of Information Act.

FORBES: Supreme Court To Weigh In on Whether Corporations Are Entitled To FOIA Privacy

Pirate Party UK - which is not affiliated with The Pirate Bay - said it created the proxy website as an act of "freedom of expression" and to support "the right to share information and ideas without interference and that censorship is never the right answer".

BBC: Music industry group BPI demands pirate proxy closure