Quotes About Privacy

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.

The fact that oversharing exists at all as a noteworthy notion is a relief, because I'm afraid that our younger generations could grow up having no idea what it even means to overshare.

Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an oath that I would never reveal what sort of work I was involved in. It was only some years after the war that Congress passed a statute relieving me of that obligation.

Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.

I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

I'm a private person who doesn't relish making her personal life public.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.

Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

I like having my own story remain my story.

Certain family matters should always remain private within the family.

I'm trying to remain unfamous.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.