Privacy For Public Officials Privacy has become a rare commodity for public officials over the past half century. It has even gotten to the point that almost all of the information in newspapers, magazines, and television involve information about the private lives of public officials. There have been two main reasons for the personalization of politics, the first is the age-old influence of political differences, and the second factor is more novel -- the rise of the Internet. These two factors have added to the lack of privacy for public officials. Journalists now scramble for any possible skeletons they can dig up on public officials, c