Edward Snowden Quotes

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

Our lives are no one's business but our own, and information about our lives belongs to no one except the people we choose to share it with…. Refuse to cooperate. Lie, stonewall, do whatever you have to do to keep yourself out of the databases, or to screw up the databases.

Privacy matters. Privacy allows us to determine who we are and what we want to be.

The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

Whatever surgery someone wants to get is none of your business.

By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.

What's perplexing to me is that I never think it's anybody's business to know my business.

I had an upbringing to respect other people's privacy and their right to be and choose what they want, and I expect - no, demand - no less for myself.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

I'm concerned with our autonomy. I don't like the idea of people collecting information on me in general, but I particularly don't like it when it's used to sort of exploit your weaknesses or make you lose control in some ways.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.