Is personal privacy important? yes. Then how about national privacy? What's national privacy? This notion is little understood perhaps. When we take a nation as a whole, the affairs within this nation are instantiations of national privacy. Just as you cannot offend other people's personal privacy, you cannot offend other coutries' national privacy. In the western world, personal privacy is overemphasized but national privacy is little mentioned. Iraq is a country, North Korea is a country and Iran is a country; they have their national privacy. You US or UK have no right to offend these countries' natinal privacy.