Privacy Laws Quotes

We don’t have to choose between preserving privacy and preventing terrorism. We do have to decide how much oversight and accountability there should be when the government conducts surveillance on its citizens.

There are definitely problems with technology companies, mostly around privacy, in my opinion, and the fact that they don't protect our privacy and we haven't passed privacy laws.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

I have nothing to hide!

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

If we give up all our privacy rights, have we become any safer?

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.

Privacy is not really a concept in Japan.

The issue of wiretapping raises the issue of the balance between human liberty and the requirements of national security. I would say that the weight should be on the side of human liberty and that if human liberty is ever to be infringed, the demonstration on the national security side must be overwhelming.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

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

Just because technological advances have made it easier for the federal government to collect information doesn't mean that our privacy rights can or should be violated on the ground or in the air.

Secrecy is a necessary part of doing business in the modern world.

I think just living in the day and age of technology, whether you're a celebrity or a normal human being, you're always worried about your privacy. And I think as long as you behave, you know you're OK. I think anyone worries about that.

Hopefully, the world will not have a lot of different privacy standards requirements--particularly some commonality between the United States and Europe.

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

I am a deeply committed conservative who wants to keep maximal privacy for every U.S. citizen.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.