what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

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Dictionary meaning

a promise or expectation that information, actions, and events shared within a particular context or social occasion will remain confined to that context and not be disclosed to outsiders; originating as a Las Vegas tourism slogan from a 2003 advertising campaign that became one of the most widely recognised taglines in American marketing, the phrase entered common speech as a general principle of contextual confidentiality; it reflects the concept of contextual integrity developed by privacy philosopher Helen Nissenbaum — the idea that information shared appropriately in one social context becomes a privacy violation when transferred to another; the phrase is invoked to create temporary zones of indiscretion, where the normal rules of social consequence are suspended for the duration of a shared experience