Quotes About Privacy

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating." --Alison Bechdel

We will all satisfy our curiosity when we can, which is any time we think no one will catch us.

Next time you leave the house, think about who might be watching you. Do you pass a traffic camera? Do the shops you go to have security cameras? Is there a camera on board your train or bus? What about in your school? The cafes and restaurants where you eat? Street corners? Subways? And who is on the other side of that camera? A private security guard? The police? The government? How can you tell?

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

I speak the Truth, that's who I am"...This phrase is often a declaration by some, a sign of strength, or integrity. But...There are truths about me that are none of your business. There are truths about you that are none of my business, either. If I were to use yours against you, or you use mine against me, we would indeed be speaking the truth, but it would not erase the hatred and meanness that also describes us. There is no strength in that. And there's sure no integrity in it either

The driver's licenses weren't the only things that had RFID chips in them. These days almost everything did, from breakfast cereal boxes to key chains.

He never was. It's the rest of us who are delusional," Ian said. "We blithely go through life pretending that we're anonymous, that nobody cares what we are doing, saying, reading, or thinking when we know that all the electronic devices we have are constantly spying on us but we tell ourselves they aren't.

They have sex so loud it scares our dog. I wanted to call you about it, but my wife says it's not a crime. Is it?

sweeping relaxation of civil liberties

this point I could not show myself, of course, or all would

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

Motörhead is nothing if not democratic, but I don't think it's fair to be waving your dick around when people are minding their own business and might not want to see it.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.