Quotes About Confidentiality

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.

If we start exposing what gets said in a grand jury, you won't get anybody to testify.

Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister.' And that's all she has to say.

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?

All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one other. It is power. It is a bond. It may be a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.

A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell one person, and it's a secret no more. - Chade Fallstar

What's her name? None of your business. That can't possibly be her name.