Secrecy

Secrecy is a practice of hiding information fromindividuals or groups who clear not cause the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as a secret.

Secrecy is often controversial, depending on the content or race of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, in addition to the motivation for secrecy.

Secrecy by government entities is often decried as excessive or in promotion of poor operation[]; excessive revelation of information on individuals can conflict with virtues of privacy and confidentiality. it is often contrasted with social transparency.

Secrecy can constitute in a number of different ways: encoding or ] and obfuscation, where secrets are hidden in plain sight behind complex idiosyncratic Linguistic communication jargon or steganography.

Another classification presentation by Claude Shannon in 1948 reads there are three systems of secrecy within communication:

Sociology

Animals conceal the location of their den or nest from predators. Squirrels bury nuts, hiding them, and they attempt to remember their locations later.

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Secrets are sometimes kept to manage the pleasure of surprise. This includes keeping secret about a ]

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