Quotes About Privacy

I needed to have an emotion in private.

It must be hard to respect other people's privacy when you've had to fight and scheme for every minute of your own. Hard not to be paranoid when you remember all the times your paranoia was justified.

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don't tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there's nothing you can do about it.

Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot.

Seriously, I don't know why I didn't just say you're welcome and please get out of my cubicle so I can sit here and leak in peace.

because privacy blah blah blah

ART had an alternate, more drastic plan that included giving me sex-related parts, and I told it that was absolutely not an option. I didn't have any parts related to sex and I liked it that way. I had seen humans have sex on the entertainment feed and on my contracts, when I had been required to record everything the clients said and did. No, thank you, no. No.

But him talking gave me a chance to work around the privacy seal on Aylen's feed ID and see she was listed as a Special Investigator. I didn't know what that meant, but it was a good job title and honestly it made me a little jealous.

lure humans in with promises of room privacy so it could record them in the public spaces.

within easy unwanted talking range.

When the company owned me and rented me out for surveys, my security protocol included datamining, which meant monitoring and recording the humans every second for the duration of the contract, which was excruciating in a lot of ways. Pretty much all the ways. (All the ways involving sex, bodily fluids, and inane conversations.)

It would never stop being novel to be around a bunch of humans in a relatively confined space and be able to close a door between me and them and not have to care what they were doing.

I had my helmet plate opaqued, so I could wince a lot without any of them knowing.

that the human race would become extinct if every member of it could see themselves having sex?

Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.

You only saw the side of people that they wanted you to show, learnt the details of their lives they were willing to reveal. Everyone kept secrets. - Pg. 222

didn't feel the need to broadcast it to the fucking nation.

People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn't tell them anything then you were safe.

People only know what you tell them, child. Remember that all your life. Only tell your secrets to people you know will keep them just what they are. Who will keep them as they were meant to be. Kept. Secret.

People only knew what you told them, only saw what you wanted them to see. Her mother had hammered that into her head since she was a child,

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

You never knew what happened behind closed doors.

There was an unwritten rule that hearing people who knew sign should identify themselves whenever they were around Deaf people. Otherwise the Deaf people might be carrying on an extremely private conversation, assuming no one around them could understand them. To not identify yourself was a betrayal of trust.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.