The legal system's treatment of privacy is perhaps its most honest expression of state philosophy, which is there is one law for rulers and another for the ruled, one set of freedoms for those in power and another for those who are subject to power. Privacy for me, transparency for thee. Secrecy when I need it, surveillance when I demand it. The laws protecting state secrecy and criminalizing individual privacy are not contradictions, but they are the coherent expression of a system designed to maximize state power while minimizing the capacity for individual resistance.