Privacy Quotes - Page 20

• Like all security, privacy is hard.

  Cory Doctorow

  Hard, Security

  "We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying" by Cory Doctorow, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2013.

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• There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

  Dan Geer

  Capacity, Ifs

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• Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Government, Ideas, Political

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• I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

  John Poindexter

  Successful, Technology, Issues

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• So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.

  Tiffany Baker

  Believe, Common Threads, Soul

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• There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.

  Anne Rice

  Loneliness, Kissing, Sea

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• [A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

  Bill McCollum

  Expectations, Liberty, Principles

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• The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.

  Naomi Campbell

  Reality, Cameras, Done

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Opportunity, Inheritance, World

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Email

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

  Max Mosley

  Democracy, Want, Should

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• Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Circles, Years, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.181

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• Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and a technology track. The technology track is encryption. It works and if you want privacy, then you should use it.

  Laura Poitras

  Technology, Two, Track

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nurse, Buttons, Letters

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• I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Book, Home

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Dog, Home, Constant

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• Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Book, Age, Needs

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Men, Details

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.260

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• You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  People, Mind, Would Be

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Parents and Children”, p.225, A&C Black

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• Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

  Hannah Arendt

  Excellence, Definitions, Action

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.49, University of Chicago Press

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• At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Europe, Nsa, Fundamentals

  "NSA files - Merkel and Hollande call for talks with US by end of year - live" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

  Kiki Smith

  Thinking, Pleasure, Clear

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

  Shepard Fairey

  Ideas, People, Safety

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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