Quotes About Privacy

You lose it if you talk about it.

The Fourth Amendment protects people, not property, the Court stressed. A person's Fourth Amendment rights do not depend on where he or she is at the time of the government intrusion, nor on whether a physical trespass occurs.

Fourth Amendment protection against a search has a "twofold requirement, first that a person have exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy and, second, that the expectation be one that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable.'"11

The Court held that police may obtain cellular location information—information that can be used to determine where a person was at a particular time—only if they have a warrant based on probable cause or if emergency circumstances justify allowing the search without a warrant.

Tracking the location of a cell phone for 127 days "provides an all-encompassing record of the holder's whereabouts, . . . which reveals the familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations."15 Roberts stressed once more that location tracking lets police learn the privacies of a person's life.

Despite Riley's efforts to protect his privacy on the ground, the Court said that he had no reasonable expectation of privacy from observation by a helicopter or a low-flying airplane.18

California v. Greenwood in 1988, the Court held that when police searched a person's garbage that was left on the street for pickup, there was not a search, and no warrant was required.

This decision means that the police can enter a home or a business illegally, and if they see contraband or evidence of illegal activity, they can then go to a magistrate for a warrant. The police don't have to tell the judge about their illegal entry. They

when police violate the Fourth Amendment's requirement for "knock and announce," the exclusionary rule does not apply.

Justice Stewart wrote that the way the search was done had nothing to do with the reliability of the evidence.

the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party . . ., even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed."55

Miller says that when police obtain information that a person has shared with a third party, it is not a search. Therefore, the requirements for probable cause and a warrant—the key protections of privacy under the Fourth Amendment—do not apply or need to be met.

Smith v. Maryland, it held that police can obtain a list of phone numbers that a person calls, or receives calls from, without needing to get a warrant or have probable cause.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit later applied this notion to say that government can monitor the email addresses a person sends to or receives from, or a list of the websites a person visits, without needing

Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court did not overrule or narrow the third-party doctrine, but it refused to extend it to cover stored cellular location information.

it ruled that people have a lower expectation of privacy with motor vehicles, and that cars are regulated by the government. In Cady v. Dombrowski

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

I feel like not all press is good press. Sometimes personal things can be released, and... that's not good press.

Most of you probably already know this but for those who don't, I was a bit of a trailblazer in the field of salacious photos released without consent.

For the most part, cookies aren't dangerous. They were created so advertisers could get a better idea of who you are and what you're interested in, so they could send you ads you're more likely to find relevant.

Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.