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The transparency trap: why open government might be worse than closed
The transparency trap: why open government might be worse than closed
If you’d asked me to make a list of people I thought would be opposed to political transparency and “open government” , Lawrence Lessig would not have appeared in my top hundred. But here he is, writing at The New Republic , saying that while the intentions of government ...
Against Transparency
Against Transparency
tnr.com — I. In 2006, the Sunlight Foundation launched a campaign to get members of Congress to post their... daily calendars on the Internet. "The Punch-Clock Campaign" collected pledges from ninety-two candidates for Congress, and one of them was ... (more) Against Transparency

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Silicon Sunshine - Data Transparency In Government
Science Fiction in the News — ... and/or b) partly or wholly owned by persons subject to indictment for federal offences and/or c) hazardous to health and the environment. Fuller details may be obtained by punching the code number at top left of this form into any veephone. They take about 57 minutes to present. (Read more about Brunner's ideas on government data transparency ) Now, that's sunshine. Read Lessig's argument in Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government via Futurismic . Scroll down for more stories in the same category. (Story submitted 10/15/2009) | ...

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