IT: Privacy (Just the Quotes)

"The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected." (Anton Chekhov, "A Doctor's Visit", 1898)

"Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress." (Samuel D Warren, "The Development of the Right of Privacy in New York", 1954)

"The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual." (Earl Warren, "Concurring in the judgment, Lopez v. United States 373 U.S. 427", 1963)

"Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine." (Victor C Ferkiss, "Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality", 1969)

"Privacy invasion is now one of biggest knowledge industries." (Marshall McLuhan, "Culture Is Our Business", 1970)

"Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements." (Katherine Neville, "A Calculated Risk: A Novel", 1992)

"If machines knew as much about each other as we know about each other (even in our privacy), the ecology of machines would be indomitable." (Kevin Kelly, "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World", 1995) 

"Privacy is a type of conversation. Firms should view privacy not as some inconvenient obsession of customers that must be snuck around but more as a way to cultivate a genuine relationship." (Kevin Kelly, "New Rules for the New Economy: 10 radical strategies for a connected world", 1998)

"The first form of semantic data on the Web was metadata information about information. (There happens to be a company called Metadata, but I use the term here as a generic noun, as it has been used for many years.) Metadata consist of a set of properties of a document. By definition, metadata are data, as well as data about data. They describe catalogue information about who wrote Web pages and what they are about; information about how Web pages fit together and relate to each other as versions; translations, and reformattings; and social information such as distribution rights and privacy codes." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web", 1999)

"Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context." (Danah Boyd, "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens", 2014)

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." (Edward Snowden, 2015)

"Data governance policies must not enforce constraints on data - Data governance intends to control the level of democracy within the data lake. Its sole purpose of existence is to maintain the quality level through audits, compliance, and timely checks. Data flow, either by its size or quality, must not be constrained through governance norms. [...] Effective data governance elevates confidence in data lake quality and stability, which is a critical factor to data lake success story. Data compliance, data sharing, risk and privacy evaluation, access management, and data security are all factors that impact regulation." (Saurabh Gupta et al, "Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights", 2018)

"Metadata is the key to effective data governance. Metadata in this context is the data that defines the structure and attributes of data. This could mean data types, data privacy attributes, scale, and precision. In general, quality of data is directly proportional to the amount and depth of metadata provided. Without metadata, consumers will have to depend on other sources and mechanisms." (Saurabh Gupta et al, "Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights", 2018)

"Data privacy, data confidentiality, and data protection are sometimes incorrectly diluted with security. For example, data privacy is related to, but not the same as, data security. Data security is concerned with assuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. Data privacy focuses on how and to what extent businesses may collect and process information about individuals." (Bill Inmon et al, "Building the Data Lakehouse", 2021)