Anonymous companies protect corrupt individuals from notorious drug cartel leaders to nefarious arms dealers behind a shroud of mystery that makes it almost impossible to find and hold them responsible. But anticorruption activist Charmian Gooch hopes to change all that. At TED2014, she shares her brave TED Prize wish: to know who owns and controls companies, to change the law, and to launch a new era of openness in business.

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