Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public, fueling a furious competition among the news services to rewrite them for their subscribers during their window of exclusivity.

The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.