Quotes About Privacy

If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.

The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know.

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

I don't want anyone being put off going into politics because they fear their personal life, family and relatives will be spread all over the media.

I moved my studio to Palm Springs 'cause I don't like the idea of going to a studio every day like a job... I need to make a personal record, so I need to be in a house... I don't want to be in a studio where people can hear the music 'cause I don't know what it is yet.

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

I've always enjoyed disappearing into a crowd in New York. As an actor, I love to spy, and it's hard to be a good spy if everyone is looking at you. Also, I'm pretty shy. I don't really like a lot of attention.

Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.

I would never vote to allow federal agents to spy on American citizens without warrants.

I'd rather live in a world where firms don't have these enormous incentives to spy on individuals.

As a senator, Obama denounced the Big Brother provisions of Bush's post-9/11 Patriot Act, particularly its sections enabling the state to spy on Americans without their knowledge. After taking power, Obama acquired his other face. That face speaks far less, but when it does, it justifies Bush's policies.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

People don't object to spying on the grounds that the secret dossier about them might be full of errors. They object to spying because it's spying.

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

We're not interested in applications where you're spying on people.

The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.

There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.

Spying on our citizens? That's just wrong.