British Columbia’s Stanley Tromp examines how, sometimes, government’s attempts to be “transparent” end up doing more harm than good:

It seemed that the means were becoming the ends, or as one speaker put it, “technology is now driving policy, not visa versa.” I mused about whether the pro-transparency rhetoric of open data activists was being exploited by governments for anti-transparency ends.

Does the means sometimes get in the way of the ends when it comes to government transparency?  You can read more here.