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The Transparent Society (1998) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author David Brin in which he forecasts social transparency and some degree of erosion of privacy, as it is overtaken by low-cost surveillance, communication and database technology, and proposes new institutions and practices that he believes would provide benefits that would more than compensate for lost privacy.
Modern usage of the term radical transparency coincided with increased public use of Information communications technologies including the Internet. Kevin Kelly argued in 1994 that, “in the network era, openness wins, central control is lost.” [3]: p.116 David Brin's writing on The Transparent Society re-imagined the societal consequences of radical transparency remixing Orwell's 1984.
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Locus , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Campbell [ 6 ] and Nebula Awards . [ 7 ] His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner .
The appropriately named initiative is a reminder of the need for government transparency and the role the media plays in preserving that transparency. Spearheaded by the News Leaders Association ...
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In the northern European country Sweden, public access to government documents became a law as early as 1766. It has officially been adopted as an ideal to strive for by the rest of EU, leading to measures like freedom of information laws and laws for lobby transparency .
Public law is the part of law that governs relations and affairs between legal persons and a government, [1] between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, [2] as well as relationships between persons that are of direct concern to society. Public law comprises constitutional law, administrative law ...
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