Top 430 Privacy Quotes

Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
Adam Cohen
We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.
Ron Lewis
I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It’s not only the idea of privacy, it’s the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast – too fast.
Ana Tijoux
I don’t think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.
Sarah Chalke
I try to keep it separate as I can, but also, I'm not g

I try to keep it separate as I can, but also, I’m not going to live my life in complete privacy. If I’m feeling something, I’m going to live my life. I will not hide things.
David Harbour
Part of my job has always been to respect the privacy of the artists.
Glyn Johns
I never like other people to clean for me. I don’t want them to invade my own privacy.
Bess Myerson
The American Civil Liberties Union has a reputation for serving as a ‘guardian of liberty,’ protecting our privacy and the First Amendment rights of speech, association and assembly.
Tom Fitton
Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of – pick a number – 40 you’re on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.
Graydon Carter
I wish that when we weren’t filming, we could have full privacy. I wish I could live in a bubble and just be with my family.
Kourtney Kardashian
The closer you get to Number 10 the more you see what a back-breaking job that is, the pressure is absolutely constant and the loss of privacy is almost complete so I don’t have ambitions in that direction and there is no vacancy nor likely to be during my time in politics.
David Lidington
When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.
James Carville
Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one’s ever had.
Tom Petty
Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products.
Tim Cook
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.
Bill Gates
I really fight for my privacy.
Kyle MacLachlan
I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it’s neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.
Beeban Kidron
Our privacy, our rights as citizens – these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear.
Trish Regan
I am becoming more recognisable in some ways, and some aspects of my privacy are going. But there’s an upside: I have more opportunity to tell bigger stories and connect with more people. And I really relish that responsibility.
Brie Larson
I’d rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they’re doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they’ve collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they’re doing with it. I’m not scared by that.
Robert Scoble
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
Richard Perle
You already have zero privacy – get over it.
Scott McNealy
We want to be sensitive to people’s concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.
John Pistole
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
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim Carrey
It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.
Frank Murphy
It is sweet that people want to know everything about my wedding, but they should also respect my privacy.
Divyanka Tripathi
Let me marry in a normal way. I know I’m a public figure, but the person I’m getting married to might need privacy.
Navya Nair
I actually worry that we’re so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are affecting the felt sense of your life and where your time goes, where your attention goes, where democracy goes, where teen mental health goes, where outrage goes.
Tristan Harris
Going to college made me realize you have to have real spaces of privacy, and you have to establish those early.
Cole Sprouse
Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.
Michael Bennet
The so-called ‘Employee Free Choice Act’ envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.
Mike Pence
Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you’ll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
Nandan Nilekani
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
Melissa Bean
I don’t see myself as a hero because what I’m doing is self-interested: I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
Edward Snowden
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
John Gilmore
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
Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
James L. Brooks
Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace… all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to – certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art – novelists are buying into it wholesale.
Guy Gavriel Kay
I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I’m still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
Kevin Spacey
Privacy is a thing of the past.
Martin Cooper
I don’t like people recognizing me all around the world. I really don’t like that, as it’s breach of my privacy.
Radhika Apte
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman’s right to choose, a good public education system.
Barbara Boxer
I like my privacy. I was completely okay when people didn’t recognise me.
Varun Tej
In ‘The Transparent Society,’ I am actually no radical. I accept that some secrecy is necessary and avow that human beings have an intrinsic need for some privacy.
David Brin
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
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
David Brin
I like to have my privacy. I don’t like people knowing what I do in my free time. I am also a very shy person, but I understand that people want to know more.
Ana Ivanovic
People aren’t interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
Larry Flynt
I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.
Gene Green
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don’t mind gearing my life towards privacy. It’s my nature.
John Travolta
A right to privacy is at the very foundation of American freedoms. It’s a core value. It’s a mistake to undermine a core value because we don’t like the way a billionaire exercises it.
Jason Whitlock
Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
Taylor Swift
It’s not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I’m inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I’m invading your privacy about that.
Wayne Rogers
I accept you need the right balance, people do need to know their privacy is protected, but when it’s essential information which will be dealt with by security agencies… I do feel the public interest overrides that.
Gladys Berejiklian
I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.
Ariel Levy