Privacy Quotes

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

"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."
-Marlon Brando

"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary."
-Margaret Cho

"The fundamental question is, should people have to pay to be private, or should privacy be the default?"
-Tara Lemmey

"We find users want freedom of expression, privacy, and ease of use. We have to balance that with the needs of governments looking for increasing access to data."
-Robin Pembrooke

"What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten."
-Judith Martin

"It's not a requirement, but there's not a zone of privacy either."
-Steve Ralls

"I built my house 35 years ago and I had privacy and quiet. They're just taking everything away. I guess commercial is just a four-letter word to me."
-Tim Hart

"Get wed with a bit of privacy."
-Heather Mills

"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

"Protection of confidential customer information is our No. 1 priority, and we are taking aggressive action to ensure that any threat to privacy is eliminated immediately."
-Kent Nakamura

"Going forward, [privacy] will be one of the most important issues this century. The next five years will be the deciding factor."
-Austin Hill

"You should want the highest form of technology and security for your privacy information, and frankly, we don't have that today."
-Richard Clarke

"Being that this is a privacy matter, if you are on the ground floor or in an area where people could be looking in, keep the blinds pulled when it is after dark. Make sure to check around and to call your local officers if you think there are people out there doing that. You can also call your neighbors and see if they have had anything like this happen or if they have noticed anything suspicious."
-Bruce Martin

"Some of the companies did it tremendously well - they put very strong privacy policies into place. They never share your data, never do anything you don't tell them to do and allow people to opt in."
-Terry Golesworthy

"Internet gambling is an illegal and destructive activity. People have bought into the lie that because it is done in the privacy of their own home, it is acceptable. Nothing could be further from the truth."
-Lanier Swann

"The Web was never built for privacy and security."
-Austin Hill

"We protect the rights of Americans and their privacy, ... We do not violate them and we never will."
-George Tenet

"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

"This bill provides full opportunity for anyone to exercise their freedom of speech and their other constitutional duties. But more importantly, this bill gives a family the right to some privacy during their darkest hour, to grieve, honor and pay their respects to their loved one. This is a right they have earned and that they deserve."
-Rep. Lee Tafanelli

"There are very serious privacy and civil liberty issues of having people permanently numbered."
-Liz Mcintyre

"No judicial oversight. No advance paperwork. No privacy."
-Michael Geist

"Most IT administrators focus on the network tier, deploying firewalls, intrusion detection, and other perimeter-defense or monitoring mechanisms, ... In addition, applications exposed to the outside typically employ encryption methods like SSL to provide privacy of communications on the Internet and to ensure the identities of the endpoints are trusted."
-Mark Patterson

"If I thought it was for the purpose of keeping me alive and my family alive, I guess I'd give up a little bit of privacy."
-Bruce Cheney

"Privacy and security promises must be kept. It's good business. It's the law, and we'll take action against companies that do not keep their promises."
-Timothy Muris

"It will be totally state-of-the-art, ... It will be a pleasant environment for patients and family members. There'll be more privacy."
-Pam Davis

"ICQ is absolutely opt-in. AOL's privacy policy says we can't use navigational information in any way."
-Tricia Primrose