A personal experience which illuminates the point on thinking about harms re: #opendata on #beneficialownership & company directorship.... I was reading a letter to the editor on a controversial topic from a woman with a generic name and no address given. I wondered who she was.
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Replying to @MForstater
Directors don’t have to have their residential address publicly available on CH. I agree that these policy areas involve trade offs, & I think we’re broadly getting it right. A level of transparency and accountability is the flipside of the benefits of ltd liability.
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Replying to @robertnpalmer @MForstater
And I know, because I was there, that UK policy makers (and those at the EU level) thought hard about the balance of transparency and privacy when it comes to company info.
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Replying to @robertnpalmer
Yes I'm sure they did. I just think its possible to come to different conclusions & approaches on the private/obscure/public , ease of search spectrum on personal info (and we do, re: e.g. drivers licenses, DVLA records, electoral registers)
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The justification has to be "there are harms but we think they are worth it". Not "there are no harms/ they are all covered by exemptions"
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I think that’s misrepresenting the debate over transparency. Most conversations I’ve had with policy makers have acknowledged these trade offs.
@CountCulture of@opencorporates has written eloquently on this2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @robertnpalmer @MForstater and
I agree though with the premise of your point that these are ultimately political choices about the balance between accountability, transparency and privacy. We just disagree on where that balance lies.
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Yes I agree. Ultimately political choices & need to be talked about. Need consider the small harms to privacy too i think. Not just kidnapping! I was disappointed by the lack of exploration of harms in the report and the assumption that they can all be addressed by exemptions.
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