Pardon me for "going meta" but it seems that power in the internet age may be less about how much information you have than on how much information you can keep

Pardon me for "going meta" but it seems that power in the internet age may be less about how much information you have than on how much information you can keep out of the hands of others. For example, just how transparent is Schmidt's or Zuckerberg's lives compared to ours? Or why the US govt seems to be classifying greater and greater quantities of information? And whether such asymmetries of power help or hurt our welfare.