Yair Lapid Quotes

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation.

The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

People know everything about everybody now.

The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

This whole thing about announcing stuff and sharing it online is a new phenomenon. Keeping things private is really, really easy and simple.

How can we be free when we are prisoners to social media, in a world without privacy? How can we be free when our every movement is tracked and every conversation is recorded and can easily be held against us? How exactly are we free if we are tethered to our cell phones?

I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.

In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know - which is why I stay away from social media - I'm terrified of it.

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?