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Title: Privacy Versus Secrecy Tags: Decentralization, Well-Being Type: Reference Reference: Hughes E. A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto. activism.net. 1993.
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.