It's less of a paradox -- or at least, less of an occurrence -- than you might think. For example, in the U.S. we have everyone blatting their "social network"

It's less of a paradox -- or at least, less of an occurrence -- than you might think. For example, in the U.S. we have everyone blatting their "social network" and correspondence all over media not only public but subject to massive government data mining (Facebook, Twitter, et al.). At the same time, increasingly we cannot even learn what laws and legal interpretations are being used to "govern" (or, "rule") us. Particularly with regard to that same data mining, but far from exclusively that. Our "regime" is fearful of exposure to public knowledge, but is busy scarfing up as much public and private data as possible. P.S. Substitute "government" with "commercial", in the above, and you have the other half of the picture, here. Corporations building data towers and relationships that remain largely opaque to those they study.