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Privacy Quotes

Normally, I would approach regulation with extreme reluctance, but the ongoing damage to democracy, public health, privacy and competition justifies extraordinary measures.

– Roger McNamee

Calling for action on threat from tech companies like Facebook. In, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.

I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can’t do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I’m buying.

– Leo Varadkar

I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby. Chapter 3, Jordan Baker.

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

– Helen Fisher

I’m learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

– Halle Berry

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution’s protection of privacy.

– Harry A. Blackmun

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

– Gary Kovacs

I believe in a zone of privacy.

– Hillary Clinton

I have a very good sense of tone, and it’s possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy – to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky.

– Jane Pauley

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

– Jill Lepore

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

– Isabel Allende

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there’s a point where one says, that’s for family, that’s for me.

– Julie Andrews

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate – we have none left.

– John McAfee

Facebook’s privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

– Jill Lepore

In my opinion, you don’t get to have privacy when you’re only 16!

– Julianne Moore

If people are constantly reading about you, and you’re overexposed, they’ve got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it’s not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

– John Cusack

Privacy isn’t negotiable. It’s the right of every American.

– Jackie Speier

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

– Howard Berman

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

– J. D. Salinger

It’s the interviewee’s job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

– John Travolta

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I’m dumping all my smart phones.

– John McAfee

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there’s kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn’t make them any less important or severe; it’s just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we’re going to solve them.

– Jonathan Zittrain

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

– Justin Timberlake

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

– James Comey

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

– Barbara Boxer

I’ve learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I’ve learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

– Ashton Kutcher

It’s important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

– Brian Kernighan

When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.

– Jonathan Zittrain

I just love my privacy.

– Ann-Margret

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