Top 430 Privacy Quotes

If a police officer is looking for a criminal, he or she might stop a number of people in that particular area and ask to see their driver’s license. No one bellyaches about civil rights or privacy issues. We’re just happy the cops are trying to find the bad guy.
Mike Gallagher
I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don’t think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
Kajol
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.
Michael Novak
Privacy isn’t negotiable. It’s the right of every American.
Jackie Speier
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
John Poindexter
I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.
Mary Archer
In Internet in general, there are security, privacy, and many other issues.
Masayoshi Son
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
Gary Kovacs
Anyone who has ever compared one woman against another on Twitter, knocked someone because of their appearance, invaded someone else’s privacy, who have made mean, unnecessary comments on an online forum – they need to look at themselves.
Laura Whitmore
I enjoy privacy. I think it’s nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I’d like to preserve some of that.
Maggie Q
At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.
Cliff Stearns
I like to have some privacy, especially where my family is concerned, so when I’m recognized, I’ll usually say something like ‘I get that all the time’ or ‘Theo Epstein? Who’s that?’
Theo Epstein
But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
Roger Mudd
No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
Wesley Snipes
Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.
Lou Holtz
High-end divorce is a closed world. When I tried to research it, I was really surprised about how little there is out there. I think that’s because of the nature of the subject matter – privacy is incredibly important to this level of client.
Nicola Walker
Prince William’s smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.
Tina Brown
Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.
Caster Semenya
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figu

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It’s a huge sacrifice.
David Duchovny
We’re learning that, when it comes to enterprise users or otherwise, privacy is very important. Some features might work well for enterprise customers and may not work for consumers. You’ve got to have balance.
Eric Yuan
There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.
Ro Khanna
I respect the media, and in return, they respect my privacy.
Urmila Matondkar
We take privacy very seriously and have privacy a policy and our intention is never to sell any customer data.
Eric Yuan
Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.
Dan Lipinski
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
We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.
Heather Brooke
Despite popular belief, Bitcoin is a bad medium of exchange for people that value financial privacy because of the transparent ledger that reveals an address, timestamp, and amount for every transaction on the network.
Nick Tomaino
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
What you believe in the privacy of your thoughts and what you do in the privacy of your home or house of worship is your business. What you do in the public realm is our collective business.
Gad Saad
I don’t mind gearing my life towards privacy. It’s my nature.
John Travolta
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
John Barton
Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?… Terrible. I believe there’s technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.
Isaac Yeffet
Celebrity is worthless and useless, it takes away your privacy.
Craig Revel Horwood
With new technologies promising endless conveniences also comes new vulnerabilities in terms of privacy and security. And nobody is immune.
Clara Shih
My privacy is very intentional.
Cheryl Cole
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
Alice Foote MacDougall
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Barton Gellman
Everything is spectacle. Everything is entertainment, whether it’s shame, invasion of privacy, abuse, no matter what it is it’s become almost a sporting event. It’s like the new Roman Coliseum in a way.
Sam Levinson
It’s fun living the life and traveling and getting to do things that I otherwise probably would never do but it comes with a cost of loss of privacy and being away from loved one a lot.
Lance Archer
When I worked for the BBC, what I was paid to do ‘House Party’ was all over the tabloid press, there was no privacy there.
Noel Edmonds
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone’s information is out there, it’s part of the collective.
Craig Venter
Privacy is important to me. But it’s not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don’t want anyone to know my business. It’s an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.
Natalie Dormer
If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.
Tim Cook
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
Jill Lepore
I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
Brian K. Vaughan
No man should be on Facebook. It’s an invasion of everyone’s privacy. I really cannot stand it.
Christina Hendricks
The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with – or protect – the privacy of their exchange.
Ivan Illich
One thing I don’t personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I’m doing more carefully. I’m not going to be acting no fool.
Marvin Sapp
Security incidents have gone up 5-10 times during the p

Security incidents have gone up 5-10 times during the pandemic, so there is an increased need for security operations risk management, identity and access management, data privacy and compliance.
Ashok Soota
It is both impractical and very harmful for each state to enact differing and conflicting privacy burdens on broadband providers, many of which serve multiple states, if not the entire country.
Michael O’Rielly
Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media, and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace, as they could not get to us there.
Hasnat Khan
My hope is that we’re going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
Peter Thiel
We asked people why they didn’t go to MySpace. A lot of people thought it was too hard to use, they thought it was a music site, or a content site. Privacy was a concern, or they’d say it was a site for teenagers.
Tom Anderson
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
David Horowitz
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
Noam Chomsky