Facebook says, ‘Privacy is theft,’ because they’re selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day. – Jaron Lanier
Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife? – Blake Farenthold
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it’s also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy. – Bill Keller
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone’s illiterate, but you wouldn’t really call that privacy. That’s ignorance. – Bruce Sterling
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. – Bill Cosby
I don’t always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I’d like to maintain. – Calvin Klein
I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans. – Andrew Rosenthal
I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about. – Ann Cleeves
I am a private person; I think that’s important if you’re an actor. But there’s a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I’m not a secretive person. – Andrew Scott
The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That’s the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick. – Barton Gellman
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous? – Al Gore
I think privacy is important, and it’s important you don’t bore people with your own boring self. – Alison Jackson
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all. – Antonin Scalia
I’ve made sure that I’ve stood for privacy and the rights of the people time and time again. – Cory Gardner
Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party. – Al Franken
Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best. – Barton Gellman
NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience. – Barton Gellman
Regarding social media, I really don’t understand what appears to be the general population’s lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent… but hey it’s them, not me, so whatever. – Axl Rose
When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms. – Al Franken
The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone’s privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name. – Asne Seierstad
I think we’re seeing privacy diminish, not by laws… but by young people who don’t seem to value their privacy. – Alan Dershowitz