E. L. Doctorow Quotes

Privacy is paradise.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

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

Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

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

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

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.

I call up Amazon. It seems to me they do a major thing wrong, right. I mean, they protect me against the loss of a $50 liability I have of something on my credit card, but they do nothing to protect me against somebody who is watching to see what books I'm interested in, what new perversions I've developed.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

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

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

Sometimes I get a call from my bank, and the first thing they ask is, 'Mr. Mitnick, may I get your account number?' And I'll say, 'You called me! I'm not giving you my account number!'

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

I like to go around, and people not knowing who I am.

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.