What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

When to others it’s not lying. It’s privacy.

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery...

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

What the university has done is set a clear policy to respect the privacy of all of its members with respect to their electronic communications. It’s making a blanket policy that we’re not going to...

In our opinion, this is not a privacy issue. We complied on a limited basis and did not provide any personally identifiable information.

If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn’t happened to me much, but...

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn’t mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past–within reason–but he doesn’t mean to give away pieces of himself.

Andy will have his privacy, but he’ll never be isolated.

At the same time, it’s a repulsive intrusion on our constitutionally guaranteed right of privacy.

On its face it seems like an outrageous invasion of people’s privacy.

If we don’t act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

What do you call someone who watches you in your private moments? They used to be called a pervert, but now they’re called an NSA agent.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit.”(To live well is to live concealed.)

Not only does the proposal … create new surveillance powers, but it actually reduces the level of privacy protection and oversight associated with that surveillance,

[The move was welcomed by privacy groups — but with reservations.] The TSA has not yet committed to permanently choosing to not use commercial data, … They need to do so.

No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the public radio station. She relished the very texture of her privacy, its depth...

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

There are skeletons in everyone’s closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

The most reliable topic for small talk is the goings-on of stars whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a particular story is truth or fiction. This is way out of balance. It...

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either...

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

The privacy of pride.

The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles. It has been hidden by secrecy, complexity and scale. The internet,...

I want someone to sit beside after the day’s pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy – to be alone with...

If Wal-Mart wants to tag their cartons, I don’t think you’ll see many privacy advocates bothered by that.

Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life–much of whic you might not trust your friends with.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers....

No judicial oversight. No advance paperwork. No privacy.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space,...

So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all...

I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.

You lose your privacy, but the cost is reasonable.

There are no secrets on the Internet

Even though we don’t know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have compromised any of them is enough to make us mistrustful of all of...

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man’s total history (including remarks put on his record by his...

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be selfies.” -Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of...

That hedge provides almost complete privacy from cars and pedestrians, and I would bet he and his wife do it more than the national average.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s muchd message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black...

When he is cheerful–when the sun shines into his mind–then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

We have reached the point that if you have a medical record, credit card or computer, you have a privacy problem,

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel?*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don’t want either to give or to take … You don’t want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.””That’s true. That’s the truest...

Security and privacy concerns, especially with RFID chip technology, are enormous,

I’m worried about privacy – the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It’s amazing how much data there is out there on...

But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too fragile, too vulnerable to bring into the public eye. Tender things with tiny roots tend to wither in...

I will fight to make sure that (privacy protection) occurs,