... compromising security‐sensitive data, declassify all information not pertinent to deciding on foreign and international economic issues. Privacy and proprietary must be protected too. The nation's annual intelligence budget must, with similar limits, be published. Congress must also have access...

... suffers from various lacunae and must be amended to address AmI challenges. Many stakeholders have important roles to play. Originality/value The paper identifies necessary safeguards to protect privacy, identity, trust, security and e‐inclusion. It identifies specific recommendations...

... such as camps, secret police and secret services, for the essence of totalitarianism is to deny the right to secrecy, intimacy and privacy. The growing obsession with secrecy – the flip side of the ideology of absolute transparency – does not augur well for our future. As the saying goes, “an egoist...