Quotes About Privacy

Frankly, I don't want to let trolls into my life.

I don't, frankly, want to be on television.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

Secrecy is never so appealing as in a free society.

I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.

There are certain things that only me, my friends and family should know. It's not everyone's business.

If we can't have exchanges with our friends and family, with loved ones that won't at some point be made public, then we can't have private lives. And if we can't have private lives, then we're not really free people.

I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.

Friendship is a personal issue, and it should remain that way.

I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.

We will never hear about people's Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.

Apricots are the most private fruit, loath to reveal their secrets.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Though what is as sexy, as sweetly taboo as money? So secret, so unspeakable even among dear friends? How much did daddy leave you? How much did you get for that painting? How did you buy that fancy car with no visible means of employment? I have friends who tell me about every kinky sex act, the lies they tell, the crimes they commit, their intestinal complaints. But they shut up like bad shellfish when you ask what they paid for their house.

what other society would have such a natural regard for her privacy and comfort that the giver would intrude only enough to deposit the gift and not inflict her with the donor?

The Fremen! They're paying the Guild for privacy, paying in a coin that's freely available to anyone with desert power—spice.

Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock—as she had learned at school.

Death is a very personal thing. I will seldom interfere with it.

The noise obviously wasn't penetrating to his quarters.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

we're constantly watched and always distracted

world in which we're constantly watched and always distracted.