Privacy Quotes - Page 29

• There are times when you want your privacy, when you don't want the cameras in your face capturing your every move, every tear, every look. But I've gotten used to it.

  Audrina Patridge

  Moving, Tears, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.

  Marge Piercy

  Children, Book, Writing

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Journey, People, Sometimes

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• I don't like showing my privacy online.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Online

  "Eduardo Saverin Finally Opens Up: 'No Hard Feelings Between Me And Mark Zuckerberg'" by Anderson Antunes, www.forbes.com. May 27, 2012.

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• With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

  Tom Udall

  Sacrifice, Technology, Airports

  "Protecting Privacy at the Airport" by Tom Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loneliness, Writing, Hazards

  "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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• In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

  Edward Kennedy

  Average, Judging, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

  David Horowitz

  Years, Decision, Foundation

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• The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Home, Echoes, Views

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• Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

  Tom Clancy

  Loneliness, Luxury, Skipper

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2420, Penguin

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• I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast.

  Ana Tijoux

  Thinking, Ideas, Space

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• To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

  Herbert Gold

  Art, Family Love, Community

  Herbert Gold (1971). “The Magic Will: Stories & Essays”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

  Edward Felten

  Creativity, Technology, Decision

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• An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Aphorism, Posing, Observation

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• The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Passion, Safety, Giving

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• 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.

  Ralph Neas

  Religious, Opportunity, Air

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• Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Loneliness

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• Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

  Daniel J. Solove

  Littles, Gone, Lost

  Daniel J. Solove (2011). “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

  Dana Bash

  Balance, Safe, Surveillance

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

  Jewel

  Writing, Feelings, Secret

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Thinking, Talent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Look, if I were running the FBI, you know, I probably would want to have backdoors as well, so I'm sympathetic to the director's view. But there is risk if you put that backdoor in. There's no question you enhance the risk, number one. Number two, there are the privacy implications that are of concern to parties.

  Rod Beckstrom

  Running, Party, Views

  "The Cybersecurity Argument For And Against Device Encryption". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The record's about not her. It's about my struggles through years of dealing with the aftermath of lost love and longing and just mediocrity and just bad news, like life stuff. And in the [record], where the title comes from, the lyrics are actually a conversation between me and another girl, not this Emma character.

  Justin Vernon

  Girl, Lost Love, Struggle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Book, Intellectual, Mind

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms.

  Patrick Leahy

  Government, Justice, People

  "The Situation: Monday, January 9". The Samuel Alito Hearings, transcripts.cnn.com. January 9, 2006.

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