Jock Sturges Quotes

I don't like showing my privacy online.

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

Never Google yourself. Seriously, don't!

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

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

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

In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.

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

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.

As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

I think a lot of stuff like people's emails getting hacked or that an email you sent is stored on a hard drive somewhere, that kind of stuff worries me a little bit. It's a weird thought that someone else could get into my information that easily. That stuff's pretty scary.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.