Quotes About Privacy

privacy sacrificed without intimacy being gained.

And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide.

People give me looks of pity and ask me why I want to wallow in my disconnection from a very connected world. It is simple. The world seems way too connected to me now. It seems to be ruining the lives of teenagers and bringing out the bestial cruelty in those who can hide their vileness under the mask of some idiotic pseudonym. I like to sit alone and think about things. Solitude is as precious as coin silver and it takes labor to attain it.

rich name for a rich dude. That's all they knew about him, and that's all he wanted them to know. Not even his manager knew who he really was or what he did.

My mistake was in telling a stranger my private business.

My mistake was in speaking to him. My mistake was in telling a stranger my private business.

He asked that the picture not be published simply because his mother did not like it.

The so-called "right to privacy" of which so much is made in contemporary life is in very large measure merely a way of avoiding scrutiny in our wrongdoing.

Love is a private thing. The world does not need to know.

Love is a private thing; the world does not need to know every detail.

Snooping data was a lot like having indiscriminate sex—protection or no protection, sooner or later you caught something.

NSA was a bottom feeder

Biggleman's Safe was a hypothetical cryptography scenario in which a safe builder wrote blueprints for an unbreakable safe. He wanted to keep the blueprints a secret, so he built the safe and locked the blueprints inside.

Das Konsortium« ist eine private Organisation mit Büros in sieben Nationen. Ihr Name wurde aus Gründen der Sicherheit und des Datenschutzes

when profound questions are asked of the heart, the answers are best kept to yourself.

There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

IF OUR SOCIETY ever opted for Orwell's Big Brother approach, the instrument of choice for oppression would have to be the credit wake. In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person's activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Humanity had become as blasé about sharing their lives with potential AI monitoring as pre-Civil War Old Earth USA-southern families had been about speaking in front of their human slaves.

Nothing could be done about it—every human above the lowest Dregs' Hive poverty class had a comlog with biomonitor, many had implants, and each of these was tuned to the music of the datasphere, monitored by elements of the datasphere, dependent upon functions of the datasphere—so humans accepted their lack of privacy.

Having sex or a domestic quarrel with the house monitors on is like undressing in front of a dog or cat Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it gives you pause the first time, and then you forget about it.

He guards his privacy as zealously as a dragon guards his gold.

secrets should never be opened without evident utility. It could be of no manner of use to me or her to communicate

I know all these facts about you and there is no longer any use for them.

You don't have to share everything with everybody. Not everyone must know about all parts of you—just the parts they need to know.