The use of "security through obscurity" invited the comparison. It is a better comparison when using automated tools instead of human decision-makers. That said

The use of "security through obscurity" invited the comparison. It is a better comparison when using automated tools instead of human decision-makers. That said, even if we are talking about policy rather than security, policies that are unknown by and hidden from the people they bind is probably the most recognizable and one of the more onerous features of despotism. We have the term "Kafkaesque" because a whole famous writer literally spent his career pointing out how they don't work and harm the people they affect