Quotes About Privacy

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

I suspected Molly wanted the pictures to send to her friends on Twitter and Facebook, the ones that I was not supposed to know about. I didn't dare ask because we have an unspoken agreement—I don't question what she does on my computer when I'm out and, in return, she doesn't murder me in my sleep. Back

Libertarians and criminals complain about the surveillance state when they see a camera. Police officers complain about it when they don't.

I listened to make sure she wasn't coming up the stairs and had a poke through the underwear drawers but got nothing except a vague sense of being really unprofessional.

These days Big Brother, or more precisely, your Bratty Techno Uncle, doesn't need an army of paid informers to keep tabs on you. Everybody seems dead keen to take personal responsibility for their own surveillance. So the problem with trying to keep a low profile is that sooner or later you'll have an involuntary encounter with someone who's dying to share your details with the world.

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

McCue: Now, Mrs. Margolies, this is Mr. McCue of the City News Bureau— City News Bureau— is it rue, Madame that you were the victim of a peeping tom? Kruger: Ask her if she's worth peeping at? Wilson: Has she got a friend?

Algorithms are listening to us. At the very least we should try to listen better than we are being listened to.

did not want journalists to spot me.

There are, of course, three ways to hide behind a sofa.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.

Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

I'm not a fan of the #DeleteFacebook campaign. I think that they can reform.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

It is very important, to have a robust digital economy, that the citizens regain the trust in how their data are being processed and who can access them.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

Reddit was created for people to speak freely and authentically and also for us to protect and value privacy. We're sort of the anti-Facebook in that regard.

If you have a point of view regarding my style of work, keep it to yourself. You are not entitled to express your opinion.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.