Our society is full of people who aren't mature enough to handle the information properly.
There's a bunch of busybodies who have noting better to do than screw over people's present and future on account of their past.
It's not a stretch to imagine the kind of person who cares whether your grass is 3/8" longer than the HOA says it should be showing up at a PTA meeting to complain about how someone who once went bankrupt or starred in an adult film is inherently not qualified to teach kindergarten.
That's not something we want to enable so that's why making stuff readily accessible to the public isn't good. If someone wants to dig then let them but digging up someone's past should be hard enough work that you don't do it on a whim and it doesn't scale.
wouldn't the world be better if data was open and easily accessible on everyone?
new morals would develop around reality rather than the fake image we are able to project. with constant surveillance i hope we enter into a more honest world.
> wouldn't the world be better if data was open and easily accessible on everyone?
> new morals would develop around reality rather than the fake image we are able to project. with constant surveillance i hope we enter into a more honest world.
No, clearly not. The mistake you're making is assuming everyone will be affected equally.
What would actually happen is some people would get burned, badly and forever, by the lack of privacy (or openness, as you call it). Everyone else will either live in fear of the possibility or go about ignorantly assuming it'll never happen to them.
There's value in being able to put your past mistakes behind you or being able to keep information from those who would do you harm.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Ideally, the question would have more specifics to warrant a better answer.