Slaven on Nostr: Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not ...

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.

--Eric Hughes 1993
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cypherpunk-manifesto.txt