A storm of requests for access to documents has also hit ministries and agencies
Authorities are pursuing different leads in the case of mysterious access requests.
Everything from high schools and vocational schools to waterworks and ministries have recently experienced receiving a large number of requests for access to documents. Archive photo. (Photo: © Ólafur Steinar Gestsson, Ritzau Scanpix) 42 minutes ago
It is not only a number of educational institutions, waterworks, and district heating companies that have been targeted by a large number of mysterious requests for access to documents.
This also applies to ministries and agencies.
This is stated by the Danish Emergency Management Agency in a written comment to DR News – but without going into detail about which and how many ministries and agencies are involved.
"The Danish Emergency Management Agency is aware that an extraordinarily large number of written inquiries requesting information from one sender have been sent to educational institutions, municipalities, organizations, utility companies, ministries, and agencies," it says.
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Authorities pursuing several leads
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It was last week that a number of Danish high schools and vocational schools reported that they had been hit by a stream of requests for access to documents.
They are believed to have been written using artificial intelligence, and they concern, among other things, court rulings and the schools' case management systems.
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What is access to documents?
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* According to the Danish Access to Public Administration Files Act (OFL), everyone is generally entitled to be informed of documents that are part of public administration case processing.
* The right to access documents applies to the entire public administration, and as a general rule, you can obtain access to all types of documents – for example, emails, text messages, photographs, and maps. Source: Borger.dk
Since then, several waterworks and district heating companies have reported the same phenomenon.
The Confederation of Danish Industry assesses that it could be a prank or a form of harassment. However, they still take the matter seriously, it says.
The Danish Emergency Management Agency writes that it is still too early to draw conclusions in the case. But it "is monitoring the situation and is in close dialogue with relevant authorities, which are pursuing various leads," it says.
In the Ministry of Justice, which is the so-called responsible authority for the Access to Public Administration Files Act that ensures the right to access documents, a guide is being prepared on how the requests should be handled.
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