From Glenn Greenwald (born 1967), American journalist and author:
The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals.
Ha is there any particular event that changed that idea?
I think it has been more an incremental process than a well-defined event.