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RE: Freedom transparency and privacy - Framing the dynamics
I haven't read Dana's article yet, just finished Dan's. I commented on Dana's comment and to Dan (under Luke Stokes).
I too thought about the individual vs institutional need for privacy. Consider the need for a business to hide it's financial books, list of suppliers, employees or subcontractors it uses from it's competitors. Is that unreasonable? I don't think it is. However, how then can corporations or institutions remain both transparent to provide oversight and accountability, but also remain competitive?
I see total transparency as desirable but also a utopian view to the state of the world now, and how people view their privacy.
Nice to see other deep thinkers taking the time to dig into this.
Thinking about institutional needs it might depend on what is needed to be hidden to be able to operate as a business, assuming 'normal' rules of competition apply. However i wouldn't rule out a different way of doing business, for example on cooperative principles, in which transparency would be a key requirement. It might a question of what is required to be disclosed and why (e.g. for the public good). Is it conceivable that in future companies work alongside each other not in competition to maximise profit, power and influence but to act in the service of humanity? I think it is. How we would get there as a species is not clear however.