Quotes About Privacy

I am perfectly well and happy here.... All I want is to be left alone to live my life as I wish and not as other people think best for themselves.

While planning out or implementing any desired work, if you disclose it, its successful conclusion becomes doubtful. So, take care not to disclose it to anyone till its successful conclusion.

I try to live without interfering in the lives of others because I have no wish for them to interfere in mine.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.

Nowadays, I have a great many visitors. Everyone has come to know that I am here. I'd be happy to escape. Why didn't you hide me away in your doll's house?

You can't tell your story to everybody, I said. Maybe you can only tell it to one person.

Music is a betrayer of secrets; it is more treacherous even than dreams, which at least have the virtue of being private.

It's limiting, Louis went on, to be known: you can't behave without inhibition. You can go to the ends of the earth but if you meet someone there who knows your name, you might as well have stayed at home.

If you're disappointed, we could always make it true. No one else has to know. Jut you and me and cute beavers.

Heard from whom? I always hated this small-town-grapevine nonsense. That's something I love about the city. The anonymity. No one knows who you are, and no one gives a shit about your business. It's a beautiful thing.

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

Internet voting is surely coming. Though online ballots cannot be made secure, though the problems of voter authentication and privacy will remain unsolvable, I suspect we'll go ahead and do it anyway.

I've always been kind of a voyeur.

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days.

With new technologies promising endless conveniences also comes new vulnerabilities in terms of privacy and security. And nobody is immune.

As we put autonomous cars on the road, connect Alexas to our lights and our thermostats, put ill-protected Internet-connected video cameras on our houses, and conduct our financial lives over our cell phones, our vulnerabilities expand exponentially.

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.