Quotes About Privacy

There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you. It's a little like nudity or taking a dump. Everyone gets naked every once in a while. Everyone has to squat on the toilet. There's nothing shameful, deviant or weird about either of them.

The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining, he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

The law didn't care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and doesn't give you a key, that lock is not there for your benefit.

Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.

That would be like telling people not to send nudes. It doesn't work.

Trading privacy for security is stupid enough; not getting any actual security in the bargain is even more stupid.

Any data you collect will probably leak, any data you retain will definitely leak, and we're putting data-collection capability into fucking lightbulbs now.

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The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

It's way too late to decarbonize the surveillance economy.

No one at the Interior Ministry used PGP for email, because no normal human does

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

See, I always forget this about you, he says, and even now, long after we first lost our privacy, I can't help wondering who's overhearing him. Every decade, you like to pin me to the ground, pull open my mouth, and take a sh** right into it.

There are two kinds of marriages: the ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not.

There are two kinds of marriages," Barbara said. "The ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not.

though as secrets went, this wasn't great. The kind I preferred were about specific people.

which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.