people sometimes ask if I prefer transparency on privacy, as a society can not have both. The premise is false. There is a sliding scale, and complete privacy for the citizen and a totally transparent government are both required.
On the surface, transparency means contradicts privacy. If you have open government, how can you have privacy for people at the same time? You can. The key word to note is the "transparency government ." The successful companies of our time have all been transparent governments, while at the same time, they got the civil liberties of citizens
what this means is that the seven intimacies -. the intimacy of the body, correspondence, data, economy, identity, location and territory - are inculcated basic civil liberties for all citizens to variable degrees of holiness. in healthy societies, they can not be broken by the law enforcement agencies dedicated to specific prior suspicion of a serious crime and identified.
However, for democracy to work, we must be able to collectively check whether the people we elected - no, Rentals - to run our company did a good job to do, and to do so that collectively they have no conflict of interest in performing their duties. This requires transparency in policy making and government.
Therefore the citizen in a perfect society has complete privacy. However, as an individual decides to run for public office, they give some of that privacy in exchange for the application of this public service, where some transparency is needed. There is a sliding scale - the concierge at the municipal office probably can not hurt much in society with conflicts of interest, but a Prime Minister can certainly. The damage over potential conflicts of interest, plus the necessary transparency.
In a healthy society, all policies is totally transparent, all the default public government documents, and the public has limited access to polling rooms where laws are made. Ordinary citizens are entitled to privacy as they go about their daily lives. (When this principle is taken to a more perfect society that we have today, it follows that the government can not collect private data on citizens, government records that are public. But we're not there yet .)
In contrast, all contemporary and historical societies where citizens have been transparent scrutinized and any power exercised behind closed doors may be kindly described as "small happiness" companies
privacy and transparency. not mutually exclusive. We need privacy for citizens and transparency in our governments.
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