Right To Privacy Quotes

• Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Different, Care

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

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• If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

  William J. Brennan

  Mean, Privacy, Married

  "Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438". Writing for the court, 1972.

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• Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Exercise, Privacy, Duty

  "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State". Book by Glenn Greenwald, 2014.

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• Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

  Tim Cook

  Fall, House, Important

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.

  Steven Spielberg

  Air, Talking, Scary

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• I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  World, Privacy, Feels

  "Marina And The Diamonds Talks ‘Electra Heart,’ Beyonce, Homoerotic Video". Interview with Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

  Marshawn Lynch

  Privilege, Privacy, Moments

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• Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Rights, Government

  "Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on NSA". www.sanders.senate.gov. May 7, 2015.

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• Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Rights, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

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• We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, School, Rights

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

  Salil Shetty

  Issues, Defining, Privacy

  "Davos 2014: Top 10 Quotes of the Day". www.weforum.org. January 22, 2014.

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• I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and building up a personal profile for you so that they can direct you in particular ways by their effective control over the internet, and that doesn't happen of course.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Building Up, Way

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• We have to decide whether our fear is going to get the better of us. Once upon a time we had a standard in our country that was 'innocent until proven guilty.' We've given up on so much. Now, people are talking about a standard that is 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.' Think about it. Is that the standard we're willing to live under?

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from May 22, 2015

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• There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Men, Rights, Law

  Look magazine, March 17, 1959.

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• I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

  Dave Reichert

  Goodbye, War, Believe

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• A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?

  Janet E. Smith

  Rights, Race, Life And Death

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• I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

  Rob Lowe

  Thinking, World, Today

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

  Tim Cook

  Country, Thinking, Liberty

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 10, 2016.

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• The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Abortion, Privacy

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• There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Smart, Freedom Of Speech, Mouths

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• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  People, Citizens, Privacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Thinking

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• The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Pregnancy, Abortion Laws, Decision

  "Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 70-18, supreme.justia.com. January 22, 1973.

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• I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

  Tim Cook

  Philosophy, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

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