John Darnielle Quotes

It's so important to know where you are.

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

The world going 100 percent mobile actually means the world going 100 percent trackable.

Mobiles mean people know where you are.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier, and the ability of computers to track us doubles every eighteen months.

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

Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re still being watched and recorded.

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

I don't like the idea of people following me around.

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.

I don't have a battery of agents to surround me in a cocoon.

Sometimes I'm fine. It just depends on where you are and if someone sees you and takes down your licence plate number. But sometimes you go to places, and no-one knows and it's fine. It really just depends.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.