These apprehensions were fueled by anecdotal evidence that some firms had in fact been injured when their competitors obtained valuable proprietary information by simply filing a FOIA request.

• 一些奇闻轶事般的证据--如有的公司在它们的竞争者仅靠提出《信息自由法》的要求取得有价值的专有信息后，实际上已受到了损害--也给上述担忧火上加油。