Quotes About Privacy And Technology

#1. Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and a technology track. The technology track is encryption. It works and if you want privacy, then you should use it.

Laura Poitras

#2. Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles?

Nicholas Kristof

#3. You always have a choice," Jedao said. "It's just that most of them are bad.

Yoon Ha Lee

#4. My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#5. The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Nicolas Chamfort

#6. There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.

Sonia Sotomayor

#7. The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

Jonathan Zittrain

#8. Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

Danah Boyd

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

Tom Udall

#10. Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

John Perry Barlow

#11. 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 become a powerful tradition.

Gene Roddenberry

#12. Get off the cross, we need the wood.

Tori Amos

#13. And if we know how to light a fire, why do we carry tinder around with us?"
Because you're humans," the little one explained serenly. "You're stupid.

Silvana De Mari

#14. The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they have a Vermonter as the Chairman Of the Technology and Law committee and that we Vermonters respect our privacy.

Patrick Leahy

#15. Encryption ... is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government ... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

Esther Dyson

#16. The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

Evgeny Morozov

#17. Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Dave Eggers

#18. 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

#19. Women have become trained to be lone soldiers online, knowing that to send up a signal flare for help is more likely to attract enemies than allies.

Violet Blue

#20. It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Isaac Asimov

#21. People stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston S. Churchill

#22. Apparently, the glasses didn't need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone's personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual's address, the browser couldn't actually physically take you there. What had this inventor done? Did he have any idea?

Chess Desalls

#23. We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

Mitch Kapor

#24. Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction? ... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.

Isaac Yeffet

#25. I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

John Poindexter

#26. I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

Bram Cohen

#27. I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

Maggie Q

#28. This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Cory Doctorow

#29. The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

Jonathan Sacks

#30. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

John Twelve Hawks

#31. It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

Dave Eggers

#32. I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.

Anne Wojcicki