When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised read more

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a read more

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a read more

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.