Quotes About Privacy

Rendez-moi les cahiers. Je vais les enterrer quelque part dans la forêt. — Oui, enterrez-les. Ou, mieux encore, brûlez-les. C'est la seule solution pour que personne ne puisse les lire.

Let's take a break from setting up Facebook to discuss the very important issues of sharing information and protecting your privacy. I've sat in on daylong workshops detailing how to tweak Facebook in such a way as to be as private as possible. I've read a multitude of magazine and newspaper articles listing countless tips on how to prevent overexposure while enjoying online social networking.

Do not divulge any fact that will help nobody.

Privacy is precious. Respect it. Own it.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.

just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: HIDE the corpse, DON'T bare your heart, DO make assumptions about the motives of others.

Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on

To think what the Stasi went through to spy on us. Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on themselves, morning, noon and night.

But you weren't born," I tell him. "I wrote an algorithm based on the Linux operating kernel. You're an open-source search engine married to a dialog bot and a video compiler. The program scrubs the Web and archives a person's images and videos and data—everything you say, you've said before." For

To think what the Stasi went through to spy on us. Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on themselves, morning, noon and night.

With your Social Security number in the wind, whoever finds it—or, more likely, whoever buys it on one of the many black-market information exchanges on the deep web—holds the keys to every part of your life. What that means—plain and simple—is that you're going to need an efficient way to keep one eye over your shoulder, all the time.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know ' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

George Orwell was wrong, she thinks. In the future, it won't be the state that keeps tabs on everyone by extensive use of surveillance; it will be the people. They'll do the state's work for it by constantly uploading their locations, interests, food preferences, restaurant choices, political ideas, and hobbies to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites. We are our own secret police.

The darkness keeps its own counsel.

Unlike everything else in these pages, my sketchbook was never intended for any sort of publication. In fact, it was never really meant to be seen by anyone. It's the closest thing I have to a diary, and it exists mainly for my own amusement, practice and mental health.

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

Pastry chefs are very particular people - we like a controlled environment; we don't like an audience.

We don't want to connect you with just anyone on Path. Without the contact list information, some of these features just don't work.

It is clear to me that creating a pathway for decryption only for good guys is technologically stupid. You just can't do that.

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.