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Privacy and Security Quotes

Privacy is one of the most debated topics in recent memory. It seems like nowadays, everyone wants to know your business. And it’s not just the NSA and Facebook types that are rummaging through your information. Have you read all the permissions you agree to when you download an app to your mobile device? Even some offline games like Solitaire now require the ability to read your text messages, contacts and know your location! 

Privacy and Security Quotes

Is this just the price we pay for living in the digital age or an infringement on our rights as citizens and consumers? And what are organizations doing to protect your information? How do they truly keep your data safe? Is there such a thing as safe anymore?

These quotes show the different attitudes and opinions surrounding privacy and security. What’s your stance?

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible. 

– Cliff Stearns

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

– Edmund Burke

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

– Al Gore

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it’s expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

– Clay Shirky, Internet scholar and professor at N.Y.U

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

– Gary Kovacs

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

– John Perry Barlow

Security is always excessive until it’s not enough.

– Robbie Sinclair, Head of Security, NSW Australia

The companies that do the best job on managing a user’s privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

– Fred Wilson

The user’s going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

– Bruce Schneier

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

– Bill McCollum

We’ve come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you’ve been tagged in somebody else’s photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

– Sloane Crosley

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

– David Brin