How can America be a free and open society when data centers have been allowed to proliferate under a shroud of secrecy?

By Kevin Palmer

In a speech titled, The President and the Press, delivered before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961, US President John F. Kennedy said, “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.

We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.”

Therefore, it can be argued the concealment of pertinent facts about data centers from the public is a clear and present danger to a free and open society.