Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.
Barton GellmanWhen the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Barton GellmanThe NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
Barton Gellman