Privacy And Freedom Quotes:

It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.

- Tim Berners-Lee

source: "Countries failing to protect women online, says report" by Alex Hern, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2014.

topic: Freedom, Mean, Political, Privacy And Freedom

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.

- Jonathan Raban

source: Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

topic: Unique, Assessment, Self, Special Relationship, Plasticity

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms.

- Patrick Leahy

source: "The Situation: Monday, January 9". The Samuel Alito Hearings, transcripts.cnn.com. January 9, 2006.

topic: Government, Justice, People, Sandra Day O Connor, Personal Privacy

In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

- Edward Kennedy

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Average, Judging, Decision, Personal Privacy, Privacy And Freedom

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

- Rob Lowe

source: "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

topic: Thinking, World, Today, Collision, Privacy And Freedom