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Quotes About Privacy

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
~ Vince Gill
During the first few days a total of forty-three officers would visit the crime scene, looking for weapons and other evidence. In searching the loft above the living room, Sergeant Mike McGann found a film can containing a roll of video-tape. Sergeant Ed Henderson took it to the Police Academy, which had screening facilities. The film showed Sharon and Roman Polanski making love. With a certain delicacy, the tape was not booked into evidence but was returned to the loft where it had been found.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
I can't remember my PIN number for my debit card or my Facebook password. The digital age sucks sometimes.
~ Unknown
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
~ Vita Sackville-West
I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others' lives.
~ Vladimir Putin
A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age
~ Voltaire
You've been using my body when I was asleep?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.
~ W.H. Auden
If a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer 'writer' for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer poetry would embarrass us both.
~ W.H. Auden
It was great for me getting a chance to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.
~ Tiffany Trump
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
~ Earl Warren
One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.
~ Laura Poitras
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
~ Arthur Guiterman
There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".
~ David Cameron
The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.
~ Jay Carney
Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.
~ Luke Harding
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.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.
~ Edward Snowden
In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.
~ Edward Snowden
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.
~ Michel Gondry
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
~ John Perry Barlow
Passwords are like underwear: you don't let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers.
~ Chris Pirillo
Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.
~ Eric Schmidt