I'm not sure "transparency" means what you think it means. Transparency is when powerful entities (companies, governmental bodies, elected officials…) disclose

I'm not sure "transparency" means what you think it means. Transparency is when powerful entities (companies, governmental bodies, elected officials…) disclose stuff about themselves. Allowing a business as big as Google or Facebook to use all their user's data as they see fit is not transparency, it's mass surveillance.