Responsible citizenship requires access to information collected and created by the government. In order to be well informed, we must have access to the information we need, when we need it. As shown in this chapter, any number of organizations—in both public and private sectors—have elected themselves as the sole arbiters of what we need to know.
If the demand for access to information can be viewed as an eclipsing body, the body that information access manages to eclipse is personal privacy.
