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  • 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

    New York   Law   Privacy  
  • 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.

    Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.
  • At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter.

    "NSA files - Merkel and Hollande call for talks with US by end of year - live" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.
  • Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

    Believe   Doe   Today  
    "Roberts Grilled on Key Abortion Ruling". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.
  • While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.

    Years   Giving   Justice  
  • If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.

    Children   Law   America  
    U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.
  • I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.

  • I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

    Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.
  • The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.

    Air   Talking   Scary  
  • The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

    "Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 70-18, supreme.justia.com. January 22, 1973.
  • There is a time and a place for creativity.

  • Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.

    "Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on NSA". www.sanders.senate.gov. May 7, 2015.
  • Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

    Views   Order   People  
    "How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" by Jesse Jackson in "Right to Life News", groups.csail.mit.edu. January 1977.
  • A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?

  • There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

    Men   Rights   Law  
    Look magazine, March 17, 1959.
  • I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

  • I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy.

    War   Iraq   Dubious  
    "This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time" by Harry Leslie Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.
  • Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmy’s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.

    Kindness   Media   Use  
  • Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

    Wise   Children   Father  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2861, e-artnow
  • There's a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights - and that includes the unborn. As an obstetrician, if I cause any harm to a fetus, I will be sued. If someone kills or harms a fetus they're liable in a court of law.

    Rights   Law   Fetus  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a firearm, that person should undergo an exhaustive criminal background check. In addition, an applicant should give up his right to privacy and submit his medical records for review to see if the person has ever had a problem with alcohol, drugs or mental illness... The Constitution doesn't count!

    Giving Up   Believe   Gun  
  • Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

  • We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

    Party   School   Rights  
    Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
  • The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

  • I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.

    Mean   Thinking   Rights  
  • I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.

  • If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

    Mean   Privacy   Married  
    "Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438". Writing for the court, 1972.
  • No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

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

    Thinking   World   Today  
    "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.
  • I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

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