Alright, lets probe this absolutism then. Is there a privacy difference between telling your oldest, closest friend a secret and telling the office gossip? Is

Alright, lets probe this absolutism then. Is there a privacy difference between telling your oldest, closest friend a secret and telling the office gossip? Is there a difference between writing a secret in your encrypted electronic journal and posting it to facebook? The issue with privacy absolutism is that it's essentially impossible to do it perfectly, so any tiny theoretical breech means you should pretty much just give up and tell the world, right? Or maybe there's more shades of gray than that and we can go ahead and evaluate the privacy implications of different activities with some more nuance.