Privacy Quotes

“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it's my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called "liberty" and during the Internet Revolution is called "privacy.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“We cannot have a society, in which, if two people wish to communicate the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”
― Jaron Lanier

“In isolation you just lose the company but don't lose the purpose.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Your soul feels lonely not when you lack company, but when you lack the cause.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You have not had any privacy since the first day you owned your first cell phone. They can track everything. They can hear recordings of anything you have ever said on your cell. And read everything you ever read, and everything you ever typed. And see every location you've ever been to. That's just how cells work. Your privacy is a willful illusion.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“Perhaps I was really the guilty one, because I did not know you well enough. I accepted that you did not reveal yourself completely to me, I admired your intelligence and your strange, bitter pride, I wanted to believe that you would forgive me as other people did because of this happy capacity I had to circulate in the world and to be welcomed, while you were only tolerated”
― Sándor Márai, Embers

“Digital freedom stops where that of users begins... Nowadays, digital evolution must no longer be offered to a customer in trade-off between privacy and security. Privacy is not for sale, it's a valuable asset to protect.”
― Stephane Nappo

“Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. It is assuming a superiority, and it is particularly wrong to question a man concerning himself. There may be parts of his former life he may not wish to be made known to other persons, or even brought to his own recollection.”
― James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Together With a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Repr. of the 1St Ed., to Which Are Added Mr. Boswell's Corrections [ &c.]. Ed., With New Notes, by P. Fitzgerald.

“My friendships are my privacy. My love life is my privacy. My health life is my privacy. My enemies are my privacy. My favourite is my privacy. My thinking is my privacy. If I show you what they're like then you're chosen.”
― Glad Munaiseche

“The idea of privacy was rooted in the concept of individualism. As such, it was impossible to have privacy when the systems of control refused to see you as an individual.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

“Affermare che la privacy non ci interessa perché non abbiamo nulla da nascondere è un po’ come affermare che la libertà di parola non ci interessa perché non abbiamo nulla da dire.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“Destroy your money, you can earn more. Destroy your data, your existence is erased.”
― Kurt Seapoint, What Is Wrong With Twitter

“The World don't need to know it all.”
― Maria Boria

“In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening.”
― Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

“End-to-End encryption is practically a meaningless phrase used by internet-based companies to coax people into believing the modern myth of online privacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Sex, or masturbation, is the only experience that millions of people are able to truly enjoy, despite their knowing that it has not been, is not being, and will not be captured to be shared on social media.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some of those who faked it until they made it are now faking not to have made it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be in love is to be like a public man. Because the public man has no privacy. So are you whenever you fall in love!”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“As state-sanctioned measures evolve to erode fundamental rights, so too does the arsenal of defensive tools the security community relies on to protect them, and this provocation ignites the residue of our defiance.”
― Jacob Riggs

“The government, in effect, declared privacy privatized.”
― Ken Auletta, Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

“In a Social Media-driven this era, the lines of privacy have almost been blurred out.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Being famous is a sweet poison, you will lose your privacy of personal life and being familiar is a slow poison, you will lose your privacy of personal living”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Nobody cares about you as a person, but they care about you as a customer. That’s how business works.”
― Abdallah Shawaf

“There is something fundamental in the desire to have a door to close, sealing out the rest of the world.”
― Abby Geni, The Lightkeepers

“We could have complete, transparent, participatory knowledge accessible to all, audited at every level of understanding, and protect privacy for everyone.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The old are still accorded human rights. The dead, however, lose all rights from the very first second of death. No law protects them any longer from slander, their privacy has ceased to be private; not even the letters written to them by their loved ones, not even the family album left to them by their mothers, nothing, nothing belongs to them any longer.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“But, of course, as everyone knows who has ever heard a piece of gossip, we do not “own” the facts of our lives at all. This ownership passes out of our hands at birth, at the moment we are first observed. The organs of publicity that have proliferated in our time are only an extension and a magnification of society’s fundamental and incorrigible nosiness. Our business is everybody’s business, should anybody wish to make it so. The concept of privacy is a sort of screen to hide the fact that almost none is possible in a social universe. In any struggle between the public’s inviolable right to be diverted and an individual’s wish to be left alone, the public almost always prevails. After we are dead, the pretense that we may somehow be protected against the world’s careless malice is abandoned. The branch of the law that putatively protects our good name against libel and slander withdraws from us indifferently. The dead cannot be libelled or slandered. They are without legal recourse..”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“Not everything needs to be shared on our Facebook. Not everything needs to be shared in our lives. Just stop and Indulge yourself with healthy, positive moments and secrets. Just because it is not uploaded on Facebook doesn't mean it's not true nor is it always true cause it's on there. A healthy secret can be a beautiful thing between people and privacy is something we owe to ourselves.”
― Cliff Hannold

“Two hundred million people signed on to a microblogging platform that helped them feel close to celebrities and other strangers they’d loathe in real life. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality were coming into vogue, again. Self-driving cars were considered inevitable. Everything was moving to mobile. Everything was up in the cloud. The cloud was an unmarked data center in the middle of Texas or Cork or Bavaria, but nobody cared. Everyone trusted it anyway.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“All ceremonial events such as initiation (baptism) and incorporation, signs of communal membership, signify in the final analysis the renunciation of the intimate sphere of the person, if not emotionally, as in the bond of a biological blood-based kinship, then nevertheless spiritually, ideationally, and symbolically.”
― Helmuth Plessner, Grenzen der Gemeinschaft