People working with sensitive information are commonly required to sign a statement to the effect that they agree to abide by the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act. This is popularly referred to as "signing the Official Secrets Act". Signing this has no effect on which actions are legal as the act is not a contract. As the act is law individuals are bound by it whether or not they have signed it, signing it is intended more as a reminder to the person that they are under such obligations. To this end, it is common to sign this statement both before and after a period of employment that involves access to secrets.
The Indian Official Secrets Act is the extension of the British Official Secrets Act.
Am I to understand in Canada, one can leak out sensitive information like operational plans etc? If so, Canada is a real free county.
And by the way, we have Right to Information Act. I thought I should let you know so that you do not belabour under wrong information or purvey the same, without understanding its meaning!
POTA is no longer in vogue. You of course would not understand why POTA was there because you have no idea as to what a terrorist is!! Let a couple of cities have bomb blast and let a few 1000 die and you will realise the same.
The US has the Patriot Act. By your index, the US is not a free country!!
The Patriot Act is like POTA (though no longer in vogue) and it is against terrorists!
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