8/ Quantity can create the impression of transparency without necessarily ever producing understanding.

8/ Quantity can create the impression of transparency without necessarily ever producing understanding. A government can release ten thousand pages and still withhold the radar track that establishes an object's velocity. It can publish a witness interview while withholding what investigators subsequently determined. It can release a targeting camera clip while protecting the metadata that tells us range and geometry. None of those examples automatically mean something extraordinary is being...