Quotes About Privacy

I've used pseudonyms, in some instances because of my source's legal commitments, in others to avoid gratuitous harm to the people mentioned. When I have disguised an individual, I have so indicated. Other than changing names and, in two instances, some telltale details about the company, I have reported what actually happened.

I was embarrassed ... because sexual harassment is such a miserable charge. And I told my brother one time, when I was going into another press conference, I said, this is humiliating. I have to go in there and talk about my sex life. He said, Barker, at your age, you should be grateful you have a sex life.

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

Marzipan's a private matter!

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.

The water is the last place where people cannot text, call or find me," she says with a giggle.

On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open

I think that the camera loves peopke who...loathe the camera (Bono)

I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.

Are you good with computers, Mr. Greene?" "Simon. And no.

secret revealed is a secret destroyed.

Technology did more than depersonalize; it ripped your life wide open, gutted you, stripped away any pretense of privacy.

The Internet make it easy to be deceptive. The Internet makes it easy to be anonymous and to lie and to keep terrible, destructive secrets from your loved ones.

At the end of the day, the information is packaged and a report will be e-mailed to you. It will show you everything—every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. If Adam does a PowerPoint or creates a Word document, it will show you that too. Everything. You could watch him live-time if you want.

Are you saying that a person is entitled to their secrets?" "Of course they are." She looked at him then, in a funny way, and he didn't much like it. "Do you have secrets?" she asked him.

Most people understand on some level that there are a lot of surveillance cameras out there, but very few people really get it. There are forty million surveillance cameras in the United States alone and the number keeps growing. You never go through a day without being recorded.

It was easy to be anonymous in emails—the best refuge of the technocoward.

It's just what Wendell Phillips said," she declared. "' The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Never take a subordinate to the woodshed in front of others; do that in private.

Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets-