Privacy Quotations

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'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

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.

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one. I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

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

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.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

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

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

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

Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles?

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

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

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.

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

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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

The positives of the expansion are many. Expanding the ICU and ED is vital in terms of adding necessary space, enhancing patient privacy and improving efficiency and quality of health care delivery.

We're talking about a basic violation of the Constitutional guarantee of a free press as well as a violation of the rights of privacy of American citizens. I had hoped we would have learned our lessons from the Nixon era. Sadly, it appears we have not.

There is no privacy issue. A car isn't a person.

We believe that consumers perceive issues such as privacy and e-mail as part of the same problem -- consumer protection. They may be concerned about unwanted e-mail and how an e-mailer got their addresses. But they also like choice and competition and the occasional targeted pitch tailored to their interests.

Whether or not I am paid on this case I will remain involved to the very end. The constitutional issues, particularly the right to privacy and the right to be free from prosecutorial misconduct, are too important to my country for this to be a matter of money.

We're going to monitor to the best of our abilities. But there's only so much we can do before getting into privacy issues.

What they will do is capture all kinds of other people in their net and reduce our privacy in the process, ... This is government we are talking about and government tends to use whatever it has.

What have we come to in this country? ... We are merely saying, 'let the laws in this country stand.' Let a woman be treated with dignity. When she has a prescription from her doctor, that privacy should be respected.

Web site privacy and security has started to come on the radar in a big way only in the last 12 to 18 months.

Three strong advertising associations, a leading email association and two consumer advocacy/online privacy organizations coming together is a rare and powerful coalition. The fact that we have come together so strongly is testament to the gravity of our concerns about this Act.

We know from previous research that shopping cart abandonment is fairly high in Canada with about one in two shoppers reporting that they did not finalize at least one online purchase in the past three months. Shipping costs, customer service shortcomings and privacy and security concerns are holding consumers back from doing more of their shopping online.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

We want interoperable systems and that's going to happen. The issue is how we will work together. Without the right coordination, privacy will be at risk in our view.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

Privacy is a fundamental human need

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

We did comply with their request for data in regards to helping protect children in a way that ensured we also protected the privacy of our customers. We were able to share aggregated query data, not search results, that did not include any personally identifiable information at their request.

What we're considering are liability issues, privacy issues, and the impact it would have on some people.

We have reached the point that if you have a medical record, credit card or computer, you have a privacy problem,

The fact is that over the last 10 or 20 years our privacy has been at risk by the vast amounts of data that society is putting in third-party hands. That's how modern society has been architected.

The problem with privacy cases is that most privacy plaintiffs have to give up their privacy. In order to sue you have to show up in court and show that they used your phone records.

There is a zone of privacy that's been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court. It's in their interest that we fight the sodomy law.