Quotes About Privacy

The casual destruction of privacy is one of the most momentous and least visible social revolutions of our time, and the safeguards to anonymity that remain are largely a function of numbers—what I call the Big World Problem.

He that would keep a secret must keep it secret that he hath a secret to keep.

The closet encouraged reading.

Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Nineteen Eighty-Four             MYAUNGMYA

Big Brother really is everywhere.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them. Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --' Hugh: 'Pained?

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Live in obscurity--lathe bi?sas (???? ??????)

Si quieres ser feliz, vive oculto

Society frowns upon candidness, except in privacy; good sense knows that it can always be abused; and the Child fears it because of the unmasking which it involves. Hence in order to get away from the ennui of pastimes without exposing themselves to the dangers of intimacy, most people compromise for games when they are available, and these fill the major part of the more interesting hours of social intercourse. That is the social significance of games.

All men and all women have their secret gardens, whose gates they guard against the profane invasion of the vulgar crowd. These are visual pictures of what they would do if they could do as they pleased. The lucky ones find the right time, place, and person, and get to do it, while the rest must wander wistfully outside their own walls.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Intel Healthcare survey of 12,002 people from eight countries showed that more than 76 percent were willing to share health data anonymously.18

It was the apparent isolation of the place that touched her; it was somewhere she felt she could be separated from the rest of the world.

Each climber in our group was assigned an individual tent, a rare and welcome bit of privacy in the otherwise highly communal world of mountain climbing. Our other amenities included a solar-powered satellite phone and fax, and access on three or four occasions to an outdoor shower. To wash oneself under the little dribble of warm water was an exquisite pleasure.

In one of the buildings where April lived, the girls befriended the kids who lived upstairs. "At first it was nice; but other times, it just felt like every time we got home, they were knocking on the door. And it stopped having that sort of safe-haven feeling to it.