Looking for short story/novel about world where there growing concern over what governments know about you

[Joeye]

I believe it was a short story, may have been a book.
read it somtime 1985-1987 in English
It was about the growing fear people had about what organizations or maybe governments knew about them. Resolution was making all information public via a massive hack.
Thanks in advance

 

[Daysman]

Sounds like John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider but (and I just checked) the publishing date was a decade earlier -- I'd forgotten how early it was...