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When it comes to the government? No. As I said before the only things that should be classified is military movement/stratagies, and military technology.
Interesting. For example the military keeps all of my personal information on file, to include my social security number, birthdate, etc. Currently, this data is considered classified and it is illegal for someone to pass it out to the public.
Should that be available to anyone who asks of it? what about videos of my face or identifying information that would allow nutjob jihadists to target my family and home?
If the United States is spying on another government in order to determine its' movement/strategies and military technology so that we can shape our own movement/strategy and technology accordingly, should that be classified? Or should we ask the Chinese pretty please to describe to us precisely their capability and intentions?
If another power passes us information with the request that we keep it secret (for example, say, if the Brits have an agent in Moscow), should we abide by those treaty obligations and do so? Or out the agent, possibly get him killed, and degrade national security?
When you say "military technology", do you mean how the planes fly? Or do you also include how we collect? If information could only have come to us from classified technology, can that information be classified as well, or should we de facto describe our classified technology to everyone via it's capabilities?
I ask more out of curiosity at this point - you've already admitted you do not understand the classification procedures or the relevant laws and oversight governing them.