Bureaucracies 'not at all prepared' for the wave of agent-written FOIA requests
nwilliams030 · x · 2026-09-29
Ludwig Bald, speaking from inside an organization that receives FOIA-style requests under Germany's IFG, warns that bureaucracies are not ready for the flood of agent-written information requests that's coming. nwilliams030 amplifies it: the people receiving these requests are saying 'we're not at all prepared for this.'
A concrete signal of agents hitting public administration: when the marginal cost of filing records requests approaches zero, institutional processing capacity becomes the bottleneck.
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