I'm not sure they have them, wouldn't make much sense to ask for them in that case.
Either way I thought about the issue and just wanted to throw out an idea:
How about the information continues to be collected but it not accessible by secret agencies. Instead, the agencies have to gain information through an ethics commission that consists of experts from all relevant fields, such as technology, law and ethics/philosophy which are elected by the scientific community. We already have similar commissions in medical fields and while they're not perfect, they seem to provide a relatively (considering there will always be humans involved) good way to balance interests and provide a relatively unbiased approach to subjects. And they would be elected by a community that attempts to be objective and does not favor either extreme of the available options.
I'm not saying it's going to or should happen, but what do you think about such an approach?
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