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PROFESSIONAL SECRECY OR PROTECTION OF SOURCES
The National Constitution refers to this institution in Article
43, third paragraph, when it expresses: ?Any person can file a motion
to gain knowledge of information about him which appears in public
records and data banks, or in private ones used to provide information;
and in the event they are false or discriminatory, can demand their
suppression, correction, confidentiality or updating. The secrecy
of the sources of journalistic information shall not be affected.?43
Thus a necessary balance between access to information and
the confidentiality of the journalistic sources is attained, guaranteeing
the legal effect of freedom of expression.
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