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Nothing of the kind would have been said. We have made no statements that would have identified the individual one way or the other because of privacy issues.

Not only does the proposal ... create new surveillance powers, but it actually reduces the level of privacy protection and oversight associated with that surveillance,

Notions of privacy are not what we are dealing with here.

It's not clear that a Hotmail user whose privacy has been compromised really has any recourse against Microsoft for what might be found to be negligent engineering of this feature,

It's not a surprise. Research shows more than one-third of people using dating sites are married or in a relationship. While some dating sites use targeted discounting strategies or the promise of a long-term relationship to improve their conversion rates, we take a different approach, focusing on privacy technologies.

The intentions of the proposed health information technology legislation are to improve healthcare, reduce medical errors, and save money, but we believe that those benefits will be realized only if there are ironclad privacy protections. Guaranteeing privacy will generate public acceptance, trust and participation in these networks.

...The issue of privacy is not for us simply as a matter of business practice. It's just fundamental to human dignity.

The issue of privacy is a substantial one. People don't realize how much information has already been gathered about them. When you start seeing pop-up screens that say 'You bought boots at such-and-such a Web site, now check out our camping gear,' that will be distressing to a lot of people; they're going to look for some way to have anonymity online.

The Internet has allowed people to invade our own homes, to have conversations with our children in the privacy of our own homes without us ever knowing about it.

The Federal Privacy Act, which governs information about individuals who have applied for assistance, protects them against scam artists, abusive spouses, data miners and a host of others who would misuse the information, if it became public.

The federal government, the DEA, handles just one percent of marijuana cases in this country and they would have absolutely no way of controlling the private adult use of less than one ounce in the privacy of someone's own home. This would in fact change state statutes and lead to marijuana being legal under state law.

The FBI and the law enforcement and national security communities in general are offering a trade: less privacy due to increased use of technology in surveillance in return for greater safety for the public.

I'm going to address the team and try to set down some parameters as to how we're going to deal with it, ... This is something now that we seriously have to take as another type of an issue, where there's a certain sense of where our privacy lies and where the boundaries lie, that we're going to have to address and we're going to have to be serious about it.

I'm disappointed by the lack of FTC action, but I'm not surprised. It just goes to show that they're not really a dedicated privacy agency. This is something they should jump on. They shouldn't wait for groups like us to take the lead.

I just wish everybody would leave it alone. Just honor his privacy a bit and let him finish the season up the way he wants. ... Any decisions that have been made will be made public at the appropriate time.

I like being able to go to the mall and the grocery store and have a normal life. I've seen what those guys go through. I witnessed it with Frank. He could barely walk in the mall without getting mauled, and people following him. They can have all that. I just want to make a good living, be able to support my family and stay under the radar. I like my privacy too much.

I moved to the county for privacy and peace and quiet. Noise is the big thing to me.

If nobody is going to buy this thing, then nobody in private industry is going to support it. It comes down to what will the consumer accept as an annoyance and a privacy risk.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy

I guarantee you at one point in your life, you have given up all of your privacy for 10 percent off at a shoe store, or hardware store or to get a credit card for some type of purchase. You have given up your name, your address, your phone number and your Social Security number for 10 percent off.

Industry hopes to use the furor over breaches as a way to pass a modest federal reform that just happens to also permanently restrict the states from passing virtually any financial privacy or identity theft laws.

If the Police Department were to stop searching the contents of subway riders' bags, that would be a substantial step toward curbing the privacy violations that have concerned us,

If the Pentagon has been collecting information improperly on Americans, it should provide a full accounting of what kind of information it collected, on whom and why, subject only perhaps to protecting the privacy of individuals.

If Wal-Mart wants to tag their cartons, I don't think you'll see many privacy advocates bothered by that.

If you didn't ask for personally identifying information, it would be interesting to see if the government cited privacy as a reason to refuse.

If you read the privacy act, it's keeping anyone from finding out anything at all. You call the hospital looking for a loved one, and they tell you they can't tell you whether she's there.

Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy as in the U.S..

Integrity of financial transactions, confidentiality within a virtual enterprise, privacy of customer data and availability of critical infrastructure all depend on strong security mechanisms. IBM Research and Business Consulting Services work together to offer world-class solutions to everyday security threats that make sense for your business, whether you have 100 employees or 100,000.

Instead, it relies on skewed descriptions of the results of the Commission's 2000 Survey and studies showing consumer concern about privacy as the basis for a remarkably broad legislative recommendation. It does not consider whether legislation will address consumer confidence problems and why legislation is preferable to alternative approaches that rely on market forces, industry efforts, and enforcement of existing laws,

In our opinion, this is not a privacy issue. We complied on a limited basis and did not provide any personally identifiable information.

In order to protect the privacy of victims' families, we will not release the names of those employees and subcontractors who have lost their lives.

I haven't really experienced as much of a loss of privacy as maybe it would seem from the outside,

In view of our need to establish trust with all of our stakeholders on the security and privacy of our systems and data, my priority is to ensure that we do it right, not just that we do it quickly.

In the publication, utilization and analysis of the survey results, departments and local governments concerned should continue to abide by the Statistics Law and the Regulations on National Economic Survey, to protect business confidentiality and privacy of the respondents, and to honor earnestly the commitments of not levying any penalties on the respondents on the basis of survey information.

Internet gambling is an illegal and destructive activity. People have bought into the lie that because it is done in the privacy of their own home, it is acceptable. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you're tired of the health club scene, and time, convenience and privacy are important to you, the home gym may offer the workout that works for you. The only commute is a walk down the hall.

If you want to find out how a company feels about your personal privacy, don't look at their privacy statement, look at their business model, ... That's their business model. If it's a question of profit versus privacy, profits come first every time.

If you want to measure how much porn is showing up in searches, try searching for it yourself rather than issuing privacy alarm sounding subpoenas. It would certainly be more accurate.

I guess it would be difficult, given the appalling state of Internet privacy, for the FTC to again recommend against federal privacy law,

If there was a gun to my head, I still could not reveal or break the privacy of my users.

It helps in two ways. One, it's going to cause consumers to think twice. They're going to say, now, what is happening? They'll read privacy policies. They'll decide not to do business with companies that share data willy-nilly.

Clues are often very fleeting in nature. The question has become, 'How much can and should the government be doing, and what is the legality?' I'd be comfortable relinquishing some privacy for security. The question is, where is the equilibrium point?

Because Amazon announced that it could no longer guarantee that it would not disclose customer information to third parties, and in the absence of legal or technical means to assure privacy for Amazon customers, we have decided that we can no longer continue our relationship with Amazon.

California leads the nation when it comes to critical privacy protection laws. California law (Penal Code section 530.6) enables California residents who believe they have been victimized by financial fraud and identity theft to request a police report -- regardless of whether the crime was committed in the victim's location or somewhere else in the country.

But he wasn't planning on that in the first place, ... My son is very guarded about his privacy and so forth. And so he's chosen not to come, and I said that's fine.

But I think he did answer many, many important questions, such as he solidly affirmed the right to privacy

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

Because of privacy issues, we only get involved when there is some suspicion on the part of the blood bank, and that's why our officers were notified. As far as anyone can remember, this is the first time this statute has ever been applied to a blood bank case in the greater Boise area.

Certainly this would be an important case. The fact that they may appeal this one would be of great note and I think would be a victory (for privacy advocates). Based on so many decisions against them, the Justice Department is finally bowing to pressure and submitting its theory to appellate scrutiny.

by substituting the personal judgment of the governor for that of the patient, the act deprives every individual who is subject to its terms of his or her constitutionally guaranteed right to the privacy of his or her own medical decisions.

By pleading guilty to these charges, our father has once again sacrificed his own interests for us. He knows that this trial, with the media attention that has accompanied it, would place our lives in the public eye, denying us any privacy whatsoever.

Generally when we think about privacy and the government, we want to make sure that the government is transparent and does protect privacy over and above the rest of the Internet and the rest of the private and nonprofit sector,

I believe in a zone of privacy.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

I have no privacy anymore.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

Privacy is not for the passive.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

I built my house 35 years ago and I had privacy and quiet. They're just taking everything away. I guess commercial is just a four-letter word to me.

I do think the right to privacy (used by the Supreme Court to declare a constitutional right to have an abortion) is protected under the Constitution in various ways.

I don't think vendors are going to build in privacy protections if there is no incentive for profit.

I don't think these kids have done anything that warrants us invading their privacy that much.

He's not there due to his medical condition. He is actually in our ICU strictly due to personal privacy reasons.

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

I continue to advocate for the preservation and expansion of Fourth Amendment privacy rights.

I can't comment on this either way. Privacy laws prevent us from talking about personal information.

I do, however, respect the responsibility he has taken for his action and I am hopeful he and his family can find the peace and privacy they will need to see them through what must be a very painful time in their lives, ... It is my most fervent hope for the nation that this investigation can be brought to its long overdue conclusion, and that in the days ahead, the president and the Congress can pour our energies into a meaningful agenda for the country.

Heather has been having problems and we are determined to get to the bottom of them as quickly as possible. It is a difficult time for all of us and I would ask that our privacy is respected.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

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.

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

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.

Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Privacy is not negotiable.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

Our work to improve privacy continues today.

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.