For example, the 'information availability principle' says: 'For as long as it has any business or statutory requirements to do so, government must be able to use the information it owns/holds [and] provide access to its information to others, when they are entitled to access it.'

The key policy under that principle is: 'Any information that is relied on for execution of public business must be free from encumbrance by externally-imposed digital restrictions, except with the informed consent of government.'

Other principles provide for confidentiality, integrity, security and information availability.