I (and probably many others) would be more accepting of my data being collected and analyzed if there was an equal effort by the government to make it's own dat

I (and probably many others) would be more accepting of my data being collected and analyzed if there was an equal effort by the government to make it's own data equally available and easily analyzed. Instead I feel like the government is as secret as ever (and prone to blatant lies) and I'm skeptical of their actions by default. Can I use any of this new tech to see which lobbyists a Senator talked to before an unpopular vote or listen in on some of those back-room meetings? Or is it only the general population that gets spied on?