Nothing you do in cyberspace can be truly private because a message cannot get back to you unless every device involved in the process knows how to get it to you. Your location has to be widely known.
If your message is encrypted, if you can trust the encryptor and the encryption, then the message content can be private - subject to those trusts.
And if you are not who others think you are, your identity might be private from them, depending on how well you have covered your tracks. But don't count on that one - they can always follow the money ...
In short, if it is in cyberspace it is about as private as if it was on a billboard - in fact on every billboard on the route out from you and back again. So be good.
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