Its important the questions of privacy are considered. I can't help feeling that conclusions here was aways going to be yay for public registers. Not sure if anyone is going to be convinced other than those who already were
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Privacy or public interest: Making the case for public information on company ownership -evaluating the personal privacy objections to public beneficial ownership registries - https://www.theengineroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/full-privacy-public-interest-updated.pdf … by @EngnRoom @thebteamhq @OpenOwnershippic.twitter.com/fsF2GN3gqv
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The bit which isn't really bottomed out I think is this. How much information needs to be public in order to identify an individual? If your name is Maya Forstater the name is enough, but if your name is John Smith a lot more. And so it pushes towards individual identifiers...pic.twitter.com/4IoF6zb2eA
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... which as they say "increases interference with privacy beyond the level necessary to fulfil the aims of beneficial ownership transparency" (this isn't really unpacked, and this is the crux of it. At some point privacy matters).
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Interestingly (for all my radfem followers who have read this far in a thread that is for the tax and transparency people :) it does raise (but not answer) the question of privacy for trans people changing their names. Which as we know would be a loophole that would be exploitedpic.twitter.com/VlH2teLLEO
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I'm still not convinced that the case for public benefit (it might work) vs the case of personal privacy is overwhelming. Some countries chose public registers (& we will learn how they work) & some will favour privacy. All should make verified info available to law enforcement.
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