The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and...

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

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...

Cloud computing, smartphones, social media platforms, and Internet of Things devices have already transformed how we communicate, work, shop, and socialize. These technologies gather unprecedented...

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now...

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt.

Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable - - and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had...

When he is cheerful - - when the sun shines into his mind - - then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

She thought you should be able to keep your private life private for any reason or for no reason. She even felt that way about politicians - so long as they weren't hypocrites - and worried that we'd...

It was some personal friend of the landlord's, who had no wish to meddle in his evening's business, and would not show himself even to the landlord's wife.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too fragile, too vulnerable to bring into the public eye. Tender things with tiny roots tend to wither...

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.