European data journalism event #Dataharvest13 kicked off this year with a panel on European information laws. Host Brigitte Alfter kicked off the introductions:

And the Corporate Europe Observatory talked about their experiences of using information laws to look at lobbying interests:

Joao Sant’Anna talked about the European Ombudsman’s role in gaining access to documents held by public institutions:

And Scott Crosby provided a legal perspective:

For more coverage from the event see the links at the official site.