<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill hibbard: <span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Doesn't that require transparency, so that the public</span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">is aware of how the tremendous power is used? That is</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">exactly my intent in advocating transparency. I realize</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">this is a semantic nitpik, but I think we need to be</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">clear about the need for transparency.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">How in the world can the FBI, CIA, and NSA function at all with transparency? Transparent to very high gov officials in every branch of gov, yes, but below that? Nah.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Bill Hibbard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:test@ssec.wisc.edu" target="_blank">test@ssec.wisc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Still, the issue is not transparency/privacy but secrecy and<br>
accountability. If somebody uses you likeness or information in ways<br>
that are harmful to you, do you have a legal or moral recourse? A system<br>
giving tremendous power to some actors must also give them equally<br>
tremendous accountability - and if it has failed to do so, it needs to<br>
correct itself.<br>
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Doesn't that require transparency, so that the public<br>
is aware of how the tremendous power is used? That is<br>
exactly my intent in advocating transparency. I realize<br>
this is a semantic nitpik, but I think we need to be<br>
clear about the need for transparency.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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