Privacy Quotes (432 Quotes)

Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

It's a very delicate kabuki dance that we do between privacy and security, and I think to some greater or lesser extent you need to plug into the fact that your individual privacy might damage the majority's safety.

Heather has been having problems and we are determined to get to the bottom of them as quickly as possible. It is a difficult time for all of us and I would ask that our privacy is respected.

We had raised some of the antitrust issues in our complaint, but the FTC's position was that they really did not have antitrust authority in this matter, so they were focusing solely on the privacy and security questions,

After Roberts explained his views on privacy and his legal philosophy, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said, You've told me nothing, Judge. ... we are rolling the dice with you.

The risk here isn't turning courtrooms into a circus or unduly invading someone's privacy. The risk is the danger we pose to our society and our democracy when we close off our institutions to the people they're supposed to serve.

One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.

I'm not sure Passport's going to fly, but in case it does we have to try to protect the privacy of the people who use it. It could end up being the largest surveillance mechanism in history.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Our company relies on having the trust of our users and using that information for that benefit. That's a very strong motivation for us. We're committed to that. If you start to mandate how products are designed, I think that's a really bad path to follow. I think instead we should have laws that protect the privacy of data, for example, from government requests and other kinds of requests.

I guess that would be Indian, in a way. We are used to no privacy. We are used to a lot of people in a room, sleeping on mattresses.

We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to secretly videotape employees while they're changing clothes, and there's no exception in the law for Hooters.

But Privacy Council CEO Larry Ponemon took a different tack in a conference call with reporters. I feel like the lone soldier attacking the hill, ... We don't see Passport as a large privacy issue here. Quite frankly, folks, Passport itself is not creating the kinds of privacy problems that are being advanced by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) and others.

The intent of the house was to be an urban villa. A house that has interior privacy, both indoors and outdoors. A central courtyard with three sides. A place we could do a lot of entertaining.

It's evidence that privacy is not being taken seriously. The guidance is very clear.

By pleading guilty to these charges, our father has once again sacrificed his own interests for us. He knows that this trial, with the media attention that has accompanied it, would place our lives in the public eye, denying us any privacy whatsoever.

While the U. S. president has an e-mail address and favors preventing taxation of Internet commerce, the U. S. government has, in fact, hurt the industry by imposing brain-dead legislation on privacy and the export of encryption, ... And outside of the U. S., I worry about taxation of Internet commerce. It's logical to assume that governments will want a piece of the action.

If you choose to let people know what you're listening to, that's your business. If they do it without your permission, it's an invasion of privacy.

The conservative Leo took comfort in Roberts's answers. Schumer pressed him very hard on accepting the word 'general' in the context of right to privacy, and he refused to do so, ... That says something very meaningful about the way in which he thinks about the right to privacy.

We may well be living in a new era here in terms of governments and data flow. This subpoena could, if fulfilled as originally requested, definitely compromise the privacy of quite a few people.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

Identity management is key to ensure trust, privacy and security as well as to facilitate collaboration and improve analytics.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

The issue of privacy is a substantial one. People don't realize how much information has already been gathered about them. When you start seeing pop-up screens that say 'You bought boots at such-and-such a Web site, now check out our camping gear,' that will be distressing to a lot of people they're going to look for some way to have anonymity online.

I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.

I would say the Fourth Amendment (guaranteeing protection against unreasonable searches) is the Fourth Amendment, and the fact that you're invading the privacy of millions as opposed to dozens should make it worse, not better.

I don't want a Democrat in the board room and I don't want a Republican in the bedroom, ... Democrats can't do business ... and all Republicans want to do is get in your bedroom and tell you what you should do in the privacy of your own home.

Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.

I can't comment on this either way. Privacy laws prevent us from talking about personal information.

What have we come to in this country ... We are merely saying, 'let the laws in this country stand.' Let a woman be treated with dignity. When she has a prescription from her doctor, that privacy should be respected.

We help the campaign process and accept the campaign contributions securely while maintaining the privacy of the donor.

If the Pentagon has been collecting information improperly on Americans, it should provide a full accounting of what kind of information it collected, on whom and why, subject only perhaps to protecting the privacy of individuals.

Regardless of what happens with this agreement, Congress can, and must fix the Patriot Act to better protect the privacy and freedom of ordinary Americans. At the same time, until the Bush administration stops the illegal NSA program to spy on Americans and stops ignoring the rule of law, any reforms to the Patriot Act could be ignored under the extreme philosophy of power embraced by this president. No matter the result of the Patriot Act, we hope all senators involved in these negotiations will resist pressure from the administration. Congress must restore the rule of law and insist that innocent Americans' rights be protected against the overreaching of the White House. We can, and must, be both safe and free.

People only sign up if they're willing to be found. We don't want to invade anyone's privacy. We want people who want to match up with each other.

The common idea that the cost of data storage is rapidly becoming zero is plainly wrong when you are talking about terabytes of data. It will cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to securely store the data in usable form. Europeans will end up paying a great deal more for communications so their privacy can be undone.

Engage has done many good things to protect privacy, but my worry is they are firing the starting gun in the race for the bottom,

The Internet has allowed people to invade our own homes, to have conversations with our children in the privacy of our own homes without us ever knowing about it.

We're giving Internet users total privacy, which they've never had before. We don't even ask you to trust us because even we don't know where you are browsing.

Every ten years, the Census Bureau force a large number of Americans to complete an expensive 'long form,' which was never mentioned in the Constitution. Not only do the Census probers ask name and address, but sex, race, income, property, household furnishings, and dozens of other irrelevant and impertinent questions. For those who refuse to answer, the Census people unlike such pollsters as Roper or Gallup threaten federal prosecution. Head counting is part of the Constitution, but this invasion of privacy is not.

This is a classic example of a censorship crusade by local government bureaucrats who are relying on their own subjective definition of obscenity to arrest someone even before any court has found that this Web site is illegal. What right do Polk County officials have to decide what people who live in Berlin and London and Hong Kong and New York access in the privacy of their own homes

We wanted a place that had privacy, was comfortable for artists, that Barbara could have a studio, and I could have a studio. I wanted to get out of the renting situation. It's not a real profitable business, so I have to control overhead.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.