--- title: Can There Be Too Much Transparency in Government? description: Maybe there can be too much transparency in government, security robots are coming and more. canonical: https://time.com/4479996/can-there-be-too-much-transparency-in-government/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-06T16:00:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:32.419Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Can There Be Too Much Transparency in Government? og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4479996/can-there-be-too-much-transparency-in-government/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Can There Be Too Much Transparency in Government? twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Can There Be Too Much Transparency in Government? by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 6, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 6, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Maybe there can be too much transparency in government.**](http://www.vox.com/2016/9/6/12732252/against-transparency) By Matthew Yglesias in Vox **2\.** [**Security robots are coming.**](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-robots-retail-20160823-snap-story.html) By Shan Li in the Los Angeles Times **3\.** [**This is why we love to be scared.**](http://daily.jstor.org/why-we-love-to-be-scared/) By Erin Blakemore in JSTOR Daily **4\.** [**Leadership is more than working crazy hours.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/09/01/stop-touting-the-crazy-hours-you-work-it-helps-no-one-2/?tid=sm%5Ffb) By Jena McGregor at the Washington Post **5\.** [**College students: Take geology.**](http://www.wired.com/2016/08/dear-college-students-take-geology/) By Erik Klemetti in Wired  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4479996/can-there-be-too-much-transparency-in-government/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4479996/can-there-be-too-much-transparency-in-government/"},"headline":"Can There Be Too Much Transparency in Government?","datePublished":"2016-09-06T16:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:32.419Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4479996/can-there-be-too-much-transparency-in-government/","keywords":["Innovation","Government","geology","robots","productivity","emotion"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4479996/can-there-be-too-much-transparency-in-government/","name":"Can There Be Too Much Transparency in Government?"}}]}] ```