Personal Privacy Quotes

When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.

I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.

When people say, "I have nothing to hide," what they're saying is, "My rights don't matter."

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

I have no respect for someone who lies about their sexuality. At the very least say 'no comment', just keep your personal life personal. If you're going to closet yourself, that sends a negative message.

It's very counterintuitive to boil down something so personal, something that requires privacy. All of a sudden, you open it up to the world and put it in a context where you could easily trivialize what you've done. If people sense that discomfort, they're not wrong.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.

I want to stand up and cheer until I realize what he told me was all the great things about my privacy except that he really told me between the lines is that he is going to continue to collect all my private records without a warrant.

What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like that.

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

I think I've been pretty private as a person. Nobody really knows me.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

No one likes to make their personal life public.

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.

Starting the podcast was an experiment. I wouldn't say I was very private, but I was probably as private as the average person.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it would seem to be a useful exercise in civics to re-educate the public about the value and purpose of protecting against unwarranted government intrusion.

I don't think any man or woman should have to tell his entire history in order to enlist in the military.