Quotes About Privacy

Unanimous. All nine justices. Cops need a warrant to search your cell phone." "Surprising outcome, don't you think?" "Not at all. The justices don't have bags of cocaine in the trunks of their cars, so the drug seizure cases usually go the government's way. But every justice has a cell phone.

Cited Riley versus California." "That's my girl! Cocounsel, I mean. Jeez, that case came down just in time! Unanimous. All nine justices. Cops need a warrant to search your cell phone.

He gave me a lecture about the power of pounding the pavement, even in these days when computers and cell towers and security cameras keep track of what we eat and drink, where we travel and sleep, who we screw, when we leave the house, and down what forbidden road Google has taken us.

But hold fast. Before you become too flushed at the prospect of starring nightly in your own private pornographic films, there are limitations.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Secrets upon secrets. Thus by inexorable degrees does the love that dares not speak its name build walls instead, till a house is nothing but closets.

Romance isn't dead, it's just under constant surveillance.

Private, visual reading and private composition thus encouraged individual critical thinking and contributed ultimately to the development of skepticism and intellectual heresy.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Wayne? When I'm famous I'm not gonna speak to anybody—not even the band.' It was a strange thing to say—it stuck in my head." Only then did he reflect how David was always "friendly. But I suppose he was never really giving much away.

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

Hide your god, men must hide their true gods with great care.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

And I don't go outside of the house if I can help it.

And I don't go out of the house if I can help it.

a lot of the time we don't tell anyone because we can't.

Though Kenya was vast, there was surprisingly little privacy in our colony. Everyone seemed to know everyone else's business, particularly when it was personal.

With the things that matter most, we guard them carefully. Sometimes we tell no one, and sometimes just one person, the one who knows us best.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window.

But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data on which you depend - without it you would not be yourself. Impossible to share and no one else could view it anyway. The past is out ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.