The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it....

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy… so it was, I think, with Dryden.

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don’t like being spied on.

Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

Many companies will not feel safe from privacy, service availability, or regulatory-compliance perspectives having all of their activities hosted outside their organizations’ firewalls. Even so, they might want the benefits of not having to install...

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.”[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier...

The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it...

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

Il n’est si homme de bien, qu’il mette à l’examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed...

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone’s information is out there, it’s part of the collective.

Father Brendan Flynn: “A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew – I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great...

It is something the residents had requested. The return envelope will add a level of privacy and security with their utility bills. It is also an additional avenue to communicate with our residents.

Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn’t. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?

…And tonight—Geryon? You okay?Yes fine, I’m listening. Tonight—?Why do you have your jacket over your head?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Can’t hear...

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don’t like showing their passports. It’s becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn’t mind death threats,...

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But...

Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.

The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind...

This is something we take very seriously. Nothing is more important to us than the privacy of our customers’ records.

The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn’t safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the point.

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control. We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person...

Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.

Privacy groups and activists have sounded the alarm, accusing a lot of these companies of forming affiliate relationships as a way of getting around privacy restrictions,

Privacy and pollution are similar problems. Both cause harm that is invisible and pervasive. Both result from exploitation of a resource–whether it is land, water, or information. Both suffer from difficult attribution. It is not...

But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely....

I think privacy is important, and it’s important you don’t bore people with your own boring self.

You need to know things the others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple...

[Ashcroft said the release of a list of the detainees’ names would be a violation of privacy and be tantamount to a] blacklist. … If he wants such a list, he’ll have to try and...

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.” [Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)]

are a luxury we can no longer afford.

The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what...

A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep...

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

I don’t like to put pressure on him. He’s got a right to privacy, too. He gets a lot of attention, which is good. It’s just not something we strive for.

If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that these measures are forging for them. The country...

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every...

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

It’s not clear that a Hotmail user whose privacy has been compromised really has any recourse against Microsoft for what might be found to be negligent engineering of this feature,

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power...

…because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight’s children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to...

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the...

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form...