P: Hide / Password Protect selected photos

@Adobe any news on this? I want to avoid Google Photos for that sole purpose. 

Even Whatsapp can do this soon.

It would be nice to hear from Adobe employees instead of countless unsolicited opinions about how this glaring missing feature can be circumvented by simply... avoiding exposing photos by thinking ahead of time about what could be exposed?

A photo manager should be able to exclude specific photos or albums from Search and default views like All Photos. This isn't a wild request. Countless folks have made it, nearly every single photo manager in existence offers this feature, including Apple's own Photos app which has offered hiding as a feature for years, and recently added password protection for this Hidden album which was previously a bit of a joke but at least prevented accidentally displaying photos one might not prefer to have displayed when:

- searching using machine-learning classification keyword which are completely unpredictable and could lead to accidental algorithmic cruelty (as coined by Eric Meyer in https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/) 

- clicking on All Photos after having done a search which curtailed the viewport location to a specific point in "All Photos"

- using any filter that might group together sets of photos a user doesn't intend to view or reveal to any person concurrently viewing their screen, for example while doing a review, demonstration, or giving a presentation.

As an extension of this, if individual People can be hidden from the People view, why can't photos featuring them be also (optionally) hidden from All Photos. What's the point of classifying all these faces if it can't be used, for example, to avoid encountering potentially traumatic photos one still wishes to keep in their Lightroom library but not be routinely exposed to? 

Adobe can do so much better in this regard, I'm starting to lose hope that after all these years we'll ever hear even the faintest commitment to take such popular feature requests seriously. Or maybe it'll drop in a minor release next week, who knows? Given the non-negligible cost of Lightroom it feels like having a sense of the feature direction for this product would be less difficult. 

PS: This is not to discount the progress made lately with technical features like ML-assisted masking or with community-oriented features which are nice to have, but feel less like low-hanging fruits than this does.

I have literally no idea how this hasn't been implemented yet. It's so obvious. I actually haven't personally purchased or subscribed to any Adobe products in any recent timeframe. I'm actually trying to do research to see what products meet my needs. I was coming here to specifically check and see how security and privacy were implemented. Finding any of that information is an exercise in futility. Dammit Adobe, I've been using your products for more than 20 years, mostly in school and professionally. This might be the missing piece that stops me from making a purchase, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I really need the ability to hide select photos in lightroom. I'm surprised this isn't a feature already. I have personal work, work work, freelance work, and age-sensitive material that I edit. Having this is a MUST.

Adobe, where are you with this? Get it together.

I agree, this is a strong omission. I recently had a boudoir shoot with a client and I just sent her a link to see the images as a shared Lightroom collection. I then realized the same collection will forcefully appear on my Apple TV which I use mostly for personal purposes. 

I wouldn't want anyone to accidentally click on it (while using an Apple TV), especially possibly underage kids, and see all the pics from the shoot or put them on display for all to see during a party for example.

There should definitely be a section in the Share Settings of the collection to allow hiding from Apple TV app.