Radical transparency has massive downsides, yes, but it's not completely black and white. I can see some interesting arguments for it as well as many against it.
Your comment says nothing. I'm glad you can think around a problem and tell me that you're capable of that, but what the Guardian is positing is "you can't steal our data if we give it to you!"
Way to beat them at their own game. It doesn't make it any less asinine.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/25/one-id...