Being transparent, how can we get better?

I read an article about the Transparency of campaigns as they raise money to be able to do the work to possibly get the office in which one seeks. In an article entitled It’s hard for campaigns to be transparent without aiding attackers it goes in to detail on the fact that web sites like this post people’s information on who sends in money.

Here is my question. Here at the JRN, I created a donations page. While I didn’t name anyone who has donated to date, I created a page that said how many people donated. I never disclosed the amount, I never disclosed email, address, phone number, or any other information. I’m wondering why campaigns have to disclose all of this information, and is it time to stop disclosing this info?

They talk about campaign finance data repository. which lists all of this stuff.

The article above in the first paragraph should be read, as I have questions on why we’re gathering this data. Could we not mention that this many people donated, and this much of this pile of money was used for this purpose instead of listing all of this info? Check out this article for yourself.

The site exists for a laudable reason: financial transparency in support of fair elections. However, all this public information makes it easy for threat
actors to customize phishing emails. We’re talking employee, donor, and contractor names, plus software providers, media partners, payroll companies, and
so on. And yes, that includes physical and cybersecurity services.

Why do we need to know who donated for this? Just state this much of this pool of money was used for cybersecurity for example. This is why we’re in so much trouble and why more people will have problems later with Phishing and the like.