Secrecy or furtiveness's the practice of sharing information among a group of people, which can be as small as one person, while hiding it from all others. That which's kept hidden's known as the secret. Secrecy's often controversial, depending on the content of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, and the motivation for secrecy. Secrecy by government entities's often decried as excessive or in promotion of poor operation; excessive revelation of information on individuals can… (More on Secret)