Caesar's Wealth before the Watchdog: A Precision Journalism analysis about financial transparency of Government Cabinet in Spain

The administrative information about top officials and civil servants’ activities in Spain is still kept under important restrictions. Such limitation is particularly severe on personal data of any type related to these politicians, in accordance with the Spanish preference for protection to privacy over the right to public interest information. Even so, since 2009 some regulations openness has taken place in relation to Government and Parliament members’ declarations about their assets. The research analyzes this tiny advance towards a democratic transparency of general interest administrative documentation