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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
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
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. -- Jill Lepore
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. -- Edward Felten
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
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
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
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
With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy. -- Tom Udall
Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both. -- danah boyd
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. -- Cory Doctorow
New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats. -- Martin Lindstrom

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