Daniel J. Solove Quotes

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

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.

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

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

You can have Google or you can have privacy but you can’t have both.

I value my privacy a lot.

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

Privacy is not negotiable.

Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?

You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated.

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

To trust so much in our devices and sync everyone's device up - we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to - and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points... of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.

Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.

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.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.