Privacy Quotes

• ...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Privacy
  • Computers
  • Invasions

• If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Important
  • Writing

• If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Bitter
  • Taste
  • Nervous

• We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Time
  • Age
  • Secret

• There are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.

  

  Alan Rusbridger
  • Laws
  • Privacy
  • Cleaned Up

• We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • School
  • Political
  • Party

• Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.

  

  will.i.am
  • Long
  • Today
  • Giving

• It's the same thing in a way with privacy. You can say "I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore this doesn't concern me," but what does it mean about our society if we're all being watched and recorded? The personal experience - negotiating this as individuals - doesn't describe the social reality and the broader social costs.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Individual

• We exchange our privacy for access, and we may be losing our sense of agency in the process.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Privacy
  • Access
  • Exchange

• You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Life
  • Money
  • Normal

• Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

  

  Dave Kopel
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • Federal

• In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy.

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Protection
  • Familiar
  • Intimate

• I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Trying
  • Privacy
  • Limitation

• I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

  

  Daniel J. Solove
  • Nothing
  • Privacy
  • Misunderstandings

• The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Goal
  • Protect
  • Boundaries

• We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.

  

  Andrew Keen
  • Business
  • Secret
  • Privacy

• The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Belief

• He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this invasions of privacy. So all in all, Barack Obama is a disaster.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Disaster
  • Barack Obama
  • Supervision

• Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Information
  • Digital World
  • Digital cameras

• It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Interested
  • Privacy
  • Invite

• I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

  

  Phil Crane
  • Security
  • Rights
  • Privacy

• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Term
  • Privacy
  • Appreciative

• I am doing my very best to keep positive and will keep you updated here with how I'm getting on. In the meantime I hope you'll all understand and respect my request for privacy during this difficult time. Sending you all so much love….xx.

  

  Sarah Harding
  • Positive
  • Privacy
  • Difficult Time

• Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

  

  Katherine Neville
  • Privacy
  • Breathing
  • Requirements

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