Quotes About Privacy

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'

I'm against all types of drugs and steroids, but the athlete has the right to have a private life. He has to be clean on the day of the competition. Out of competition, that's his life.

I always am astounded at how willing Steve was to share all about himself. And sometimes he got criticized for it. But he was so open and yet so private about some things.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

He's known as Sting. I have my own personal name for him, but that shall remain a personal name.

If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.

Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It's in the best interest of organisations - when they're attacked and information is stolen - to tell nobody.

Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don't want to use them. Smart cards and tokens can be lost or stolen.

You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.