Solitude sometimes is best society.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

The public good must come before private interests.

Apparently, the glasses didn’t need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone’s personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual’s address, the browser couldn’t actually...

Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world – and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual’s relationship with the...

Data banks offer powerful tools for security screening, but they also raise privacy dangers.

…if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing which is must suffer to be touched. Ours is a time of connection;...

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism–as frightening as that...

Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums,...

It’s idealistic, it’s for love and gentleness, it’s close to nature, it hurts nobody, it’s voluntary. I can’t see anything wrong with any of that.”Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be...

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

A memoir is an invitation into another person’s privacy.

Eventually all things are known. And few matter.

[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component of a liberty. Part of citizenship in a free society is the expectation...

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It feels, in fact, like exactly the kind of thing we were protesting against,...

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

[For the justices, Roe reflected earlier cases involving the right to privacy. That] right, … broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

‘And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants...

I wouldn’t live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn’t want it next door. I’m not too happy it’s within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me....

We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren’t just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in...

I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want...

The U.S. safe harbor principle meets the test of adequacy as required by the (privacy) Directive.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

I do not tell her about how much I look forward to going to the Wright barn. How those couple of hours in his studio feel like an escape, a refuge. Nor do I tell...

Language … has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

We have woven privacy into the DNA of Microsoft, from product development to deployment, and decisions are made with privacy in mind,

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...