Keep our business to ourselves The internet ain't doin' no help
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Quotes tagged ‘Privacy’
Behind the products we use every day there are people with access to highly sensitive customer data, who need it to perform essential work on the service. But, without proper protections in place, those same people may abuse it to spy on users' private information or profiles.
The narrative that some companies will try to get you to believe is: ‘I’ve got to take all of your data to make my service better.’ Well, don’t believe them. Whoever’s telling you that—it’s a bunch of bonk.
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.
People should be comfortable being themselves, and should not have to worry about what they share coming back to hurt them later. So we won't keep messages or stories around for longer than necessary to deliver the service or longer than people want them.
Privacy gives people the freedom to be themselves and connect more naturally, which is why we build social networks.
[to Esmeralda] Candlelight, privacy, music. Can't think of a better place for hand-to-hand combat.
— Irene Mecchi, Tab Murphy, Jonathan Roberts, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Phoebus (voice), Kevin Kline, imdb.com
Jeez. Doesn't anyone fucking knock any more?
They went into my room. No one should ever go into my room.
James Calley: The instinct to avenge a partner's death is something you don't see anymore. David Hume: Yeah, I can see how that would get lost when you live your life under a surveillance camera. James Calley: You're not suggesting the attempts to make this a safer and more perfect world have actual…
— Art Monterastelli, James Calley, Matthew Bennett, imdb.com
Acton’s account of what happened at WhatsApp—and Facebook’s plans for it—provides a rare founder’s-level window into a company that’s at once the global arbiter of privacy standards and the gatekeeper of facts, while also increasingly straying from its entrepreneurial roots.
'Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!'
It's not just about abortion, it's about the next 20 years. Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it's gonna be privacy. I'm talking about the Internet. I'm talking about cell phones. I'm talking about health records and wh…
— Dee Dee Myers, Aaron Sorkin, Patrick Caddell, Sam Seaborn, Rob Lowe, imdb.com
What kind of civilization do we live in when asking to be left alone is enough to destroy it?
We actively create our public selves, every day, one social media post at a time.
Heather McNamara: Suicide is a private thing. Veronica Sawyer: You're throwing your life away to become a statistic on US fucking A Today. That's about the least private thing I can think of.
My son's a homosexual, and I love him. I love my dead gay son.
I have a very good family that supports me when I need it. I’ve always been in football, which I love, and then with the public, which I love too. Of course, I had to change my life a little bit and lose some privacy. But my personality grew into it through the years.
It's also possible to see the data Facebook has collected on them over the years. This includes old messages, poke history and which advertisers have access to your data.
If only Mark Zuckerberg cared about the privacy of the rest of the world as much as he did his own.