Can we reconcile the goals of increased government transparency and more individual privacy?

I really appreciate the Sunlight Foundation's continuing series on new data sets being made public by the federal government as part of the Open Government Directive.  Yesterday, I found out the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services will be releasing all kinds of new goodies.  As the Sunlight Foundation points out, the data so far is lacking granularity -- comparisons of Medicare spending by state, rather than county.  But still all very exciting.Yet not a single mention of privacy.  Even though, according to the blogger, the new claims database will include data for 5% of Medicare recipients.  After "strip[ping] all personal identification data out," the database will "present it by service type (inpatient, outpatient, home health, prescription drug, etc.)" As privacy advocates have noted, that's probably not going to do enough to anonymize it.I don't really mind not hearing about privacy every time someone talks about a database.  But it's sort of funny.  Everyday, I read a bunch of blogs on open data and government transparency, as well as a bunch of blogs on privacy issues.  But I rarely read about both issues in the same place.  Shouldn't we all be talking to each other more?