Thanks for responding. It helps, I was so tempted to argue with your points as I had misread them. I feel strongly about the primacy of privacy because the pro

Thanks for responding. It helps, I was so tempted to argue with your points as I had misread them. I feel strongly about the primacy of privacy because the problems of prejudice are so severe. But the transparent world approach has a lot of depth to it, and I'm nervous and excited to see where it leads us, since like it or not it the technical and social changes we're seeing are creating so much data. Here are the issues I think we have with this particular data release. I understand they may be resolvable though, and while I argue against accepting privacy problems like this right now, I would definitely love to find out that we can shift to a more transparency society without reservation and without the level of abuse that I fear: -- Information asymmetry, since most people don't typically keep the type of statistical skills, computing power, and even secondary data sets for cross joins and comparisons around. Information asymmetry is a widely recognized concern in social behavior and commercial law (i.e. insider trading & real estate contracts) -- Ethical concerns seem to constrain us to taking people's own privacy expectations into account. Originally privacy loss didn't seem to be a problem, but the situation changed when evidence emerged to the contrary -- History shows us that governments frequently overstep their bounds. Rather than argue recent events which are more clouded by emotion and the narrative of the day, I think most people would agree that the FBI in the 60s was quite abusive in their gathering and use of data That said, transparent world all the way. How do we get there?