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Quotes About Privacy

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.
~ Richard Stallman
His computer password is "password.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.
~ Clay Shirky
Don't damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don't change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.
~ Julian Assange
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
~ Louis Kronenberger
No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.
~ Bruce Schneier
He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.
~ Marc Rotenberg
Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
~ Lois Wyse
This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
~ Walt Whitman
My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.
~ Hugh Grant
I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.
~ Tom Cruise
I won't talk about who I'm dating. Because it's dumb. It leads to nowhere good. I let everybody else in the media do that for me. It takes the responsibility off my shoulders!
~ Renee Zellweger
I dont talk about who Im dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
~ Bridget Fonda
I don't want to date someone who the whole world knows. Obviously, there are guys you look at and are like, 'Aww yeah, nice,' but I definitely have an anti-celebrity dating thing.
~ Stacie Orrico
I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.
~ Anna Nicole Smith
Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.
~ Jonah Goldberg
In my own house my voice don't carry from the kitchen to the toilet.
~ Philip Roth
Her ubiquity and his constipation, my mother flying in through the bedroom window, my father reading the evening paper with a suppository up his ass . . . these, Doctor, are the earliest impressions I have of my parents, of their attributes and secrets.
~ Philip Roth
Everybody masturbates in libraries. That's what they're for.
~ Philip Roth
A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them -- but no male nonrelatives may do so. It is hardly a den of eroticism.
~ Phyllis Chesler
For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.' And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor