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=== General ===
'''Transparency''' refers to the extent to which citizens can meaningfully view and understand how government operates.
 
   
 
'''Transparency''' refers to the extent to which citizens can meaningfully view and understand how government operates. It refers to an environment in which the objectives of policy, its legal, institutional, and economic framework, policy decisions and their rationale, [[data]] and [[information]] related to monetary and financial policies, and the terms of agencies' accountability, are provided to the public in a comprehensible, [[accessible]], and timely manner.
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=== Surveillance ===
It refers to an environment in which the objectives of policy, its legal, institutional, and economic framework, policy decisions and their rationale, [[data]] and [[information]] related to monetary and financial policies, and the terms of agencies’ accountability, are provided to the public in a comprehensible, accessible, and timely manner.
 
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'''Transparency''' is
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{{Quote|[t]he circumstances wherein the parties to a [[communication]] and [[unauthorized]] individuals (i.e., individuals who are not involved in [[implement]]ing and [[maintain]]ing the [[intercept]]) are unaware of on-going [[electronic surveillance]].<ref>[[Electronic Surveillance in a Digital Age]], at 74.</ref>}}
 
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Revision as of 08:08, 7 January 2012

Definitions

General

Transparency refers to the extent to which citizens can meaningfully view and understand how government operates. It refers to an environment in which the objectives of policy, its legal, institutional, and economic framework, policy decisions and their rationale, data and information related to monetary and financial policies, and the terms of agencies' accountability, are provided to the public in a comprehensible, accessible, and timely manner.

Surveillance

Transparency is

[t]he circumstances wherein the parties to a communication and unauthorized individuals (i.e., individuals who are not involved in implementing and maintaining the intercept) are unaware of on-going electronic surveillance.[1]