A secret (of the adjective secretly) is information or social acting, whose knowledge under few secret carriers remains, which are subject to the secrecy. Within the political range becomes for it also from the anglo-saxon RH-imported expression klandestin (originally from latin: clandestinus, secretly, secretly) uses. As Gegenbegriffe public and transparency are considered.

When something designated open secret or also public secret, which should have been kept secret from interested circles, but admits already generally is.

In the context of a Mysteriums "„secret designates "“an event, which is rationally not explainable.

Examples

• The official secret is limited a secret, which itself on a certain, comprehensible circle of acquaintances by office-holders and coworkers of an authority. The members of this circle are subject to the professional secrecy (closer see there)
• The banking secrecy designates obligation to secrecy and right of the information auskunftsverweigerung of banks opposite of third over financial circumstances its customers (details see there).
• Beichtgeheimnis one calls the obligation-moderate discretion of the clergyman regarding everything that is entrusted to him in the Beichte (details see there)
• A trade secret was in former times in special occupations guarded function or manufacturing methods, which should not be made accessible from reasons of the economics (restriction of the number of occupation-exercising) and also plagiarism passing occupation-strange persons. Professional secrecies were frequently broken through however against appropriate payments (charm artists). Today one understands to be silent under it the obligation of the employee over things, which he experienced during the practice of his activity.
• The secrecy of letters is a fundamental right guaranteed in the condition of democratic states, which the inviolability of mails guaranteed (details see there).
• The communications secret is a prohibition of unauthorized hearing, suppressing, using or disfiguring, from communications (teleprinter, telephone, radio and telegrafen) messages. The communications secret is constitutionally protected in many states and supplemental by the secrecy of letters and the post office secret.
• Military secret
• The editorship secret is the privacy of the work of newspaper editorships and magazine editorships, along-protected with the fundamental right of the Pressefreiheit.
• The social secret is a special official secret in the range of the social right.
• State secrets are for the security of a state relevant facts, those, would succeed them to the public, which political and economic interests could cause to heavy damage.
• The tax secret prevents the fiscal authority from it to pass realizations on, which win it during the taxation, to third (details see there).
• In relation to obligation to secrecy with the patient not used persons have also member of welfare-treating occupations, like physicians, dentists, pharmacists or members of another occupation of welfare, which requires nationally regulated training - e.g. Nursing for the sick R/CR and rescue assistants and their aid (thus e.g. Medic and rescue medic). This enumerating is finally and enclosure e.g. no welfare practical men. Information in relation to authorities are subject to a special regulation.

Something similar applies to the reporting secret ("§ 5 MRRG) and the statistics secret ("§ 16 BStatG).

See also

• Secret politics, secret service
• Secret of the faith

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