Quotes About Privacy

There are many myths surrounding celebrity children.

I've always loved the media and will continue to do so, but I do feel with due respect to all concerned that surrounding us and giving us no space to move becomes difficult when you're out with family.

There is nothing private about delivering a child with doctors and nurses surrounding you.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

I think that what I don't like is everything that surrounds a footballer. The fame, the people idolizing you, the press, not being able to have a normal life like normal person. I think that is what has held me back a little in football.

Surveillance breeds conformity.

Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

I don't have a problem with stepped-up surveillance as long as we follow the rule of law.

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.

The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.

Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.

If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and catch me trying to organize protest activities.

The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

All of us, whether public figures or private individuals, should feel safe in our own homes and not fear surveillance from nosy neighbours.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.