Transparency, like sunlight, needs to be looked at carefully.

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Launching an online town hall meeting will allow more effective communication with citizens, said Ellen Miller, executive director at the Sunlight Foundation, a group that advocates government transparency.

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He also is neutral to the merits of transparency in media and politics, making a key point that sunlight is not the disinfectant everyone thinks it is.

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The Sunlight Foundation's John Wonderlich wrote in a blog post that Cispa "is terrible on transparency" and that the shared personal data between firms and the government would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

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