Feedback mechanisms are necessary to fulfill the goal of transparency. Transparency has
become a general requirement for democratic societies. The right to be informed and to
have access to information has been an important issue in modern societies and, notably,
the global information society as well as its economic counterpart, the so-called
“knowledge-based economy”. Some people think that transparency means all sorts of
information should be available, not merely the information that relates to a specific
decision or policy. Newspaper and television reporters have tried to stretch the definition of
information that should be in the public domain, making the case that even personal
information of those involved should be available in the public interest.