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We're into semantics here. Privacy provides a way to hide detail, to prevent confirmation, and to allow people to deny things. For simplicities sake I consider these, or more broadly, anything protected by privacy, to be 'secrets'.

I don't think the word 'crucial' that you added is useful here.

>>m1sta_+(OP)
Such simplicity is lossy and in this case the loss is crucial, hence that word and that's why sometimes (not always, I'll give you that) semantics matter.

Especially when not seeing that distinction might cause one to state something that is either not true or that inadvertently allows re-framing the discussion in ways that hamper progress.