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> Then why hide it?

There are a lot of legitimate reasons to use these kinds of services. Releasing all the data is a huge privacy violation for all the customers who have done nothing wrong. Would you like much of your perfectly legal business and/or personal finance dealings suddenly made public?

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Yes. I think all contracts should be public (or, equivalently, that private contracts wouldn't be enforceable). That kind of transparency would help a lot with various issues we have these days (terrorism, inequality, corruption, bribery, white-collar crime, ...).

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