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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. -- John Perry Barlow
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own. -- Evgeny Morozov
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. -- Rand Paul
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans. -- Glenn Greenwald
Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process. -- Marsha Blackburn
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
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
The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations. -- Simon Sinek
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders. -- Dorothy E. Denning
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular. -- Jill Lepore
With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. -- Dorothy Denning
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. -- Edward Snowden
Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government. -- David Blunkett
There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms. -- Al Franken
I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy. -- Marsha Blackburn
Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be. -- James Comey
I'm quite certain the Windows 8 team is preparing to market IE 10 - and by extension, Windows 8 - as the safe, privacy-enhancing choice, capitalizing on Google's many government woes and consumers' overall unease with the search giant's power. -- John Battelle
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected. -- Michael McCaul
When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy! -- Joel Salatin
I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive. -- Tim Cook
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. -- William O. Douglas
Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows. -- Dave Kopel
We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders. -- Dorothy E. Denning
I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case. -- Dan Piraro

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