Quotes About Privacy And Security

#1. It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats.

Theresa May

#2. There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

Tim Berners-Lee

#3. For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

Larry Page

#4. It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

Bill Gates

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

John Pistole

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

Margaret Cho

#7. I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

John Poindexter

#8. The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Barton Gellman

#9. 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.

Phil Crane

#10. It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities of the outside world. The printed word evokes the modern notion of security, with the emphasis on detachment, privacy, autonomy, predictability, and enclosed artificiality.

Jeremy Rifkin

#11. Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [ ... ] and the like.

William O. Douglas

#12. Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.

Edward Snowden

#13. Won't bother you, and you'll be safe here. You think you can manage grace at the table for a little privacy and guaranteed security?" She looked at him and smiled. He nodded. "Besides," she continued, "you can always call me if you want to talk sin.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. Let someone take away any sense of privacy or security you might still possess. Then have someone use that insecurity to satisfy their own twisted curiosity.

Jay Asher

#15. It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

Barack Obama

#16. This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It feels, in fact, like exactly the kind of thing we were protesting against, but we thought it was elsewhere. It is not heartening to find that it has come to us.

Nick Harkaway

#17. With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

Tom Udall

#18. In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect....

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

Jim Ramstad

#20. The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.

Michael Bloomberg

#21. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Bruce Schneier

#22. Privacy is not for the passive.

Jeffrey Rosen

#23. But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.

John Pistole

#24. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

#25. We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

Ron Lewis

#26. [A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

Bill McCollum

#27. There is no transparency, Marus. It can't exist. Surveillance doesn't go both ways. There are those who watch, and those who are watched; the powerful, and the powerless.

Celeste Chaney

#28. We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

Paul Broun

#29. This wholesale invasion of Americans' and foreign citizens' privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we're trying to protect.

Daniel Ellsberg

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

Louis Freeh

#31. Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

Ron Paul

#32. What's privacy to the employee is security to the boss.

Joshua Cohen

#33. We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.

Auliq Ice

#34. Like all security, privacy is hard.

Cory Doctorow

#35. Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.

James Gleick

#36. 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.

John Twelve Hawks

#37. It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Brian Kernighan

#38. In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

Max Mosley

#39. It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.

Robert Pattinson