“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from surveillance!”

What You Say

That argument cuts both ways — if officials have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear from FOIA, financial disclosure, and lobbying logs. Democracy runs on reciprocal visibility: voters scrutinize power; power doesn't get unlimited scrutiny of citizens. SAFE-004 targets government and influence spending, not private diaries. Asymmetric secrecy is how capture thrives.