Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.
You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
I'm very, very worried about the invasion of privacy rights that we're seeing not only from the N.S.A. and the government but from corporate America, as well. We're losing our privacy rights. It's a huge issue.
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
It certainly woke me up to how vulnerable we all are. I think I was much more cavalier about it before I started working on the movie [Edward Snowden], and then the more I read the documents themselves and saw just how sweeping and indiscriminate the intrusions into our privacy have been, it made me more aware.
I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.
In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.
I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.
I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to hide.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy
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