{"id":131346,"date":"2016-08-23T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/and-here-is-why-total-anarchic-transparency-is-a-bad-thing.html"},"modified":"2016-08-23T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:27:12","slug":"and-here-is-why-total-anarchic-transparency-is-a-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/and-here-is-why-total-anarchic-transparency-is-a-bad-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"And here is why total anarchic transparency is a bad thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While releasing government documents to show corruption and venality and truths hidden from the public that arguably ought to be known is quite arguably a good thing &#8230; such data dumps can, if not carefully and conscientiously curated, also include information that will hurt innocents, as in the latest batch released by WikiLeaks too painfully demonstrates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/08\/new-report-highlights-wikileaks-publication-of-private-info\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/PmeDEClkfbhNcEeikBuExd3GNQgq7wX1aEpSZzVFhgGQ4qAuSnwT-rnczo-gAx_NNYKrvYKJXDj7GE59NBudAmfMuzfwqUObmzeyEe8WNqkq2gy4gJr8OssluNqZcbNeuA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/08\/new-report-highlights-wikileaks-publication-of-private-info\/'>Report: WikiLeaks published rape victims&rsquo; names, credit cards, medical data<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;If the family of my wife saw this&#8230; that could destroy people.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/QmdXDLyzWF9'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While releasing government documents to show corruption and venality and truths hidden from the public that arguably ought to be known is quite arguably a good thing &#8230; such data dumps can, if not carefully and conscientiously curated, also include information that will hurt innocents, as in the latest batch released by WikiLeaks too painfully &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/and-here-is-why-total-anarchic-transparency-is-a-bad-thing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And here is why total anarchic transparency is a bad thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27268,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/29\/the-outlaw-nation-business-and-the-rule-of-law-national-and-international.html","url_meta":{"origin":131346,"position":0},"title":"The Outlaw Nation &#8211; 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