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Privacy Quotes

On guarding what's personal in a public world.

These quotes explore privacy from the vantage point of public recognition, describing a love-hate relationship with interviews and comfort in going unrecognized. A broader line frames privacy as a right tied to freedom from unwarranted interference. Continue with Being quotes.

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Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

9

DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

8

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

7

A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Being Quotes

6

We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

5

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

4

For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

3

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

Quotes by Zach Galifianakis

2

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

Quotes by William J. Brennan, Jr.

Government Quotes

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No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

Quotes by Wesley Snipes

Whether personal or principled, these reflections treat privacy as something worth actively protecting. See also Information quotes and Life quotes.