Quotes About Privacy

ChoicePoint is a private intelligence agency. Several years

Equally important, the words of the First Amendment assume, and even insist on, a citizenry that not only has access to whatever information the government may have on them but control over the information as well.

ThinThread, a pilot program developed by the NSA in the late 1990s, would have enabled the NSA to collect, analyze, and secure massive quantities of communications data while protecting personal privacy in the process. ThinThread combined four advanced

identification card (dubbed "an internal passport" by its critics) has been hailed by many as a necessity in America's fight against terrorism. What once was seen as a tool for controlling immigration and zeroing

The Hitachi Corporation has created the world's smallest, thinnest RFID tags. Referred to as the "powder type," these tags are barely detectable to the naked eye. They are so small that they can be easily incorporated into thin paper or a single clothing fiber. These tiny tracking devices

Some people have even had a chip implanted in their arm to provide personal and medical information to doctors and emergency personnel when needed.36 Human microchip implantation took a leap forward in July 2007 when the American Medical Association (AMA) announced

Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) has called for initiation of the Right to Know Act, which would require that commodities containing RFID tags bear labels stating that fact in order to protect consumer privacy.

License plate readers—which collect upwards of 1,800 images per hour—can identify the owner of any car that comes within its sights. (Illustration by Molly Zisk, courtesy of The Register)

Neighborhoods gave way to gated communities, and the nosy neighbor down the street had been transformed into an official neighborhood watch. Surveillance cameras were mounted on sidewalks

Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.

appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour

We should leave our love-making till the dead of night,' she thought. 'And bury it secretly in sleep.

What is it he doesn't want people to see by keeping the windows covered? It makes a person wonder. I guess

We all have a right to our private lives; it's living a secret life that gets us in trouble.

My parents threw out the diary when they found it. They didn't want me keeping secrets in my room, never mind that a room and a girl will keep secrets even without pages to store them.

If your husband is overweight, don't ask him how much he weighs or sneak up behind him when he stands on the bathroom scale.

There are lots of gay and lesbian actors who are very secretive about their sexuality. Things leak out, but you never know for sure. Maybe the nineties will change some of that.

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?' 'Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful.

I can't imagine what you write about," North said. "Certainly not about my personal life. I attempted a diary once, and had to fill it with lies in order to keep myself interested

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.