Thought-provoking Quotes About Privacy (Page 2 of 2)

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate -- we have none left.

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

I want my government to do something about my privacy -- I don't want to just do it on my own.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.