Interests of Third Parties: the extent to which government should keep information secret for the sake of third parties

We are all third parties, at least in the sense that government rarely justifies keeping information secret for reasons other than our sake. Although most of the third parties to be considered in this session are those who have supplied information to government, it should be remembered that there are other third parties with interests to be considered. Some of these are people (and companies) about whom information is held, rather than from whom information is received.