SECRECY

The action of keeping something secret or the state of being kept secret.Google Dictionary.
[A. Carnegie, 2021, follows] Carson (2020, p. 5) in defining secrecy as the “intentional concealment of information from one or more audiences.” Secrecy can be thought of as falling on a continuum based on the effort it takes to keep a secret, ranging from a simple lack of transparency to the adoption of secrecy infrastructure, such as encryption, classification, or penalties for sharing information. Secret actions could include, for example, propaganda, political operations, economic actions, and paramilitary actions, while secret information could include covert agreements signed between states or the secretive monitoring of those agreements.1 Secrecy can take several different forms, including open secrecy (where the facts are known but not openly acknowledged; Perina 2014), quasi-secrecy (where official secrecy is combined with “leaks, selective disclosure, and de facto public awareness”; Banka & Quinn 2018), obfuscation (where information is made obscure or unclear; Kono 2006), or deception (where information is deliberately misrepresented; Mearsheimer 2013, Schuessler 2015).
-- Secrecy in International Relations and Foreign Policy | Annual Review of Political Science Vol. 24:213-233 (Volume publication date May 2021)
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