Quotes About Privacy

Literary festivals all over the country turn writers into performers and open doors into their private lives that, I often think, would be better left closed. In my view, it's more satisfying to learn about authors from the work they produce rather than the other way round.

A book about me? He's putting me in his book? I don't want to be in his fucking book! I want my lawyer in this room. If he puts me in his book, I'll fucking sue him.

We believe that when technology providers deploy encryption in their products, services, and platforms they need to maintain an appropriate mechanism for lawful access.

Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

It is both impractical and very harmful for each state to enact differing and conflicting privacy burdens on broadband providers, many of which serve multiple states, if not the entire country.

While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

For the longest time, I was just real nervous about privacy and people prying into my personal business.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

I don't want my personal life to become a part of public domain. It is something that is sacred and means a lot to me. I don't want it to become some frivolous gossip column.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.

How much information I want to put out in the public domain is my prerogative.

I wouldn't want anything on my personal life making its way into the public domain.