Best 310 quotes in «privacy quotes» category

Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and character). And with the computer must be placed the modern scientific technical capability which exists for wholesale monitoring of telephone, cable, Telex and microwave transmissions which carry much of today's spoken and written communications. The combined use of the technical capability of listening in on all these forms of communications with the high-speed computer literally leaves no place to hide and little room for privacy.

You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999

You can't possibly have a reasonable expectation of privacy at your income level.

You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

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.

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

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

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

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.

Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

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

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

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

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

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

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

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

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

It has been more than 60 years since the constitution was put in place. There are provisions in the constitution that no longer suit the times. Since the constitution was promulgated, we've seen the emergence of new values, such as privacy, the environment and so on, which need to be incorporated.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

It certainly woke me up to how vulnerable we all are. I think I was much more cavalier about it before I started working on the movie [Edward Snowden], and then the more I read the documents themselves and saw just how sweeping and indiscriminate the intrusions into our privacy have been, it made me more aware.

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.

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

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.