Quotes About Privacy

Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.

Even if people would know who we are, or you could click on a Wikipedia page saying my date of birth, it does not necessarily mean that I have to go out on social media and tell you where I'm eating.

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.

If you fall in love with someone, it doesn't matter who they are. I've had lots of girlfriends who weren't in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though you've sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.

That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.

I tend to keep my love of heavy metal under the radar.

When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.

I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

When you're working in crisis situations, people have a tendency - particularly the media - to stake out your house.

I remember, one time my friend and I were trying to get back on the tender of a boat we were staying on, but there were so many paparazzi we couldn't find it. So now there are all these pictures of me going, 'Where are you?' and just a billion paparazzi not letting me on.

One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, all of these large companies, are making tens or hundreds of billions of dollars off of monetising people's data.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

In a democracy there will always be a tension between security and privacy.