What they mean by "transparency"

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

-Audre Lorde

The so-called "new age of transparency" means that government has the right to spy on you by every available means, but government and the rich and powerful have the right to absolute secrecy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/02/week-ahead-bilderberg-2013-Watford

You are transparent, they are opaque. The Internet is not a tool for free speech, it's a tool for spying on you.