Tim Cook Quotes

What is privacy if not for invading?

How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

I really fight for my privacy.

I have nothing to hide!

At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

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.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

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.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

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

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

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

I believe that it is critical for this country to have a zone of privacy —– for everyone,

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.

The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers.

Privacy is the right to do what you feel guilty about.

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

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

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

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.