Quotes About Privacy

I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.

It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.

At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.

I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

Poppy doesn't really like interviews.

If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

Even if I delete something, I know somebody probably will have a screen shot. I portray myself how I want people to view me.

Particularly now with social media, you only need to turn round and someone will have a camera in your face and occasionally someone will be talking to you at the bar, asking you to pose for a picture, and someone will say, 'They're videoing this.' They're videoing you at the bar!

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.

Of course I would like to be more famous. It offers more career possibilities. But then it can prove restrictive. Plus you get hassled when you go shopping.

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

We're just a general-purpose search engine and torrent-tracking system. You can put whatever you want on the Pirate Bay. We don't participate in how the people communicate with each other. We only participate in bringing the possibility to communicate and share files.

My beard is just an ongoing effort to hide my face as much as possible.

Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.

If you want to post pictures of yourself online, that's your decision, but you should understand the implications.

When you put up a personal post on social media, you are putting yourself out there because you are sharing something from your personal life.

Even though I do share a lot of stuff, it's a very small portion of my life. And I think you just have to be careful because, anything that you post, it essentially is there forever. If it's not something you don't want everyone to see, don't post it.