Quotes About Privacy

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.