Privacy Law Quotes

The true test of a privacy policy is the remedy to consumers if their privacy is invaded.

Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

The problem with having an all-encompassing privacy law … is the protection it gives to those who don’t merit protection. [Corrupt officials]

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

This right of privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy…

The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.

I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law

A right of privacy doesn't emerge from any single part of the Constitution. The right of privacy emerges from the Constitution as a whole.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game - you an look it up.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

I always knew it'd be difficult to balance the right of privacy and the right of free speech. I think that is a tension that we've seen in court case after court case and law after law. And we always strive to find that right balance.

If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data from Russian citizens on Russian soil just to prevent other countries from playing the same kind of legal games we're playing in this Microsoft case.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She said we need an alternative to this whole way of thinking about the privacy now which says that when you give data to a third party, you have no expectations of privacy. And [Louis] Brandeis would have said nonsense, of course you have expectations of privacy because it's intellectual privacy that has to be protected. That's my attempt to channel him on some of those privacy questions.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

[T]he [Facebook] settlement sends a powerful message about the importance of privacy. The cost of privacy violations like Facebook’s just increased dramatically. And if the need for companies to take privacy commitments seriously was not clear before, it is now.

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.