Oh come on! Privacy and secrecy are not the same thing. Privacy is where everybody else legally agrees to pretend we don't know what you are doing. Secrecy is

Oh come on! Privacy and secrecy are not the same thing. Privacy is where everybody else legally agrees to pretend we don't know what you are doing. Secrecy is ... an illusion that the CIA are struggling with. I am reminded of a quote from Iain M Banks, where the hero was talking to a sentient nebula, and the background includes how the fleshy races would discuss if the nebula was "truly sentient", partly on philosophical grounds "but mostly because they could do immensely profitable things with a cloud of gas a million cubic parsecs in size"