Quotes About Privacy

What's different with Cambridge Analytica and more broadly with social media is that you are the target. People want to harvest your information in as granular a way as possible in order to, like, create a picture, a complete picture of who you are, ultimately to either sell you things or make you believe things.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

With our Paleolithic instincts, we're simply unable to resist technology's gifts. But this doesn't just compromise our privacy. It also compromises our ability to take collective action.

Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?

We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother in law to hear at your trial

What happens in Korea stays in Korea," he told himself.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

It was something she'd told him off about on more than one occasion, this tendency to offer up his private sadnesses as a form of mass entertainment.