Also, you can't be rooting for transparency AND privacy at the same time. You have to give up on one of these, and when you think about it, you have to conclude that the losing idea is that of "privacy".
In contrasts in Norway, by law, it is far more restricted what the credit card companies can record about me. Whenever somebody requests information about me, by law I have to be sent exactly the same information. This provides both increased privacy and transparency. I get to know who is trying to find out stuff about me, and I got control over what sort of information is shared about me. If what is being sent out looks wrong I can contact the credit card companies and inform them about that.
Likewise you can look up anybody's tax returns in Norway. You can't look at the details however. But it is a great tool for transparency in that it allows you to check if e.g. government officials or others have way more income than they should be having. However whenever you request this information, people having those tax returns will be informed that you requested that information. This helps protect your privacy as you can't look at the neighbors tax returns without looking rather stupid and nosy.
a) Even if all information about every person is publicly accessible, none of us will know everything about all of us (Us being humanity). Some things about some people would be known by more people. For example, more people would know that the president is the president than whether I got a haircut any given day. Indeed, more people would know that the president exists than would know that I exist. There is a limited amount of attention, and not enough to give attention to everything, so some things must have more attention on them than others.
b) Negative attention can harm someone. Harassment hurts.
c) having information about someone can make it easier to focus the attention of others on that person, including negative attention. This is true even when the people whose attention is in question already could have accessed the information beforehand, but haven't. Perhaps even especially true.
Conclusion) Having all information available about all persons makes it easier for those who can direct people's attention to direct negative attention against those who they wish to do so against, and therefore increases their ability to harm those people, and therefore increases their power over them.
So a total lack of privacy makes those with power over attention more powerful.
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Providing the information publicly shouldn't be an issue since you don't believe in the concept of privacy.
Also for example my address is probably nowhere public because I didn't choose to publish it.
Should banks get rid of vaults and stack money on the street curbs?