The top secret information exposed by the now in-famous wistleblower Edward Snowden was something that deep inside we already knew: our emails, online calls, iTunes purchases are all being tracked. Internet Privacy is a myth, and just like vampires or Santa Claus, some people like to believe it exists.

Perhaps our grandsons will ask us one day what was that thing called privacy. They will wear contact lenses that will let them record whatever they see, they will store their actual memories on digital devices and they won’t make a big scandal if the nude photos of a politician or celebrity are posted online, for them there would also have been a time when they were sexting with their school friends anyway.

So what if privacy is not an issue? What if we learn to live without it? We are all growing up used to hiding our feelings and emotions, we are taught that it’s OK for everyone to have secrets, and that they give us power, but what if they actually make us more vulnerable?

In a society where everything is known, our kids should learn not to be afraid at expressing themselves and asking questions, and we should learn to answer always with the truth, whatever it is. Getting rid of our secretive society may actually make us more authentic after all.

Making our governments transparent though, that’s a challenge.

Our history is full of all types of government abuse across all countries: From the US secret involvement on military coups around the world, to consistent sexual assault to female citizens by Egyptian forces, to Colombian so-called “false positives”, in which army posed civilians as rebels to justify their killings. Even the Vatican and their whole handling of child abuse cases shows how dirty a secretive organisation can become. Secretiveness in any type of organisation leads to corruption and abuse of power.

Why should we get upset at the government for checking on our lives if we have nothing to hide? The indignation should come from what our governments hide from us. The movements and the marches and the protests should be to demand transparency.

In 1993 the now renowned ONG Transparency International took shape with the vision of “A world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption”. Notice that they are not called “Anti-Corruption International”. They understand that transparency would deter democratic governments to do what their citizens would simply not approve.

That is also the point of the Wikileaks movement. An organisation that started to make public the secret information of governments for considering this is something the public should be aware of. Hence the reason they are assisting the new U.S. #1 public enemy: a whistleblower. By exposing the secrets of the governments of the world they are telling us all “Hey! Watch out! This is what they do while you watch reality shows on TV”. And we should care.