Quotes About Privacy

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.

When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.

I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.

It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.

When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.

It's hard to see a certain type of press try to destroy your life.

I don't think a camera and a cameraman can destroy a family.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

I've had a couple of experiences. It can get scary. Especially when you're on TV and you're in someone's home every week and they feel like they know you. If you don't know them back, they don't understand. They've become detached. But most of the time, fans are great.

Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.

We don't collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That's just not the business that we are in.

The biggest pieces of my business are not public. Maybe I'll tell all the details when I'm 50 or 60.

We're very private people and we tend to write about our relationships but keep the actual details close to our chests.

I'm no different from anyone else but I don't trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into a bookies.

Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.

The diamond business has always been secretive.

We've centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg, who's basically the biggest dictator in the world as he wasn't elected by anyone.

'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.