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| Interest of | • Big Brother Watch • Privacy International |
| Privacy is the right from which all others are derived. Without privacy there is only society, only the collective. | |
History
On December 15, 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis published the article of the law called "The right to privacy",[1] considered one of the most influential papers in the history of American law.
21st Century
Edward Snowden has written that “Privacy is the right from which all others are derived. Without privacy there is only society, only the collective, which makes them all be and think alike. You can’t have anything yourself, you can’t have your own opinions, unless you have a space that belongs only to you. Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say...” [2]
Related Quotation
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| Peter Thiel | “I believe that it is always important to exchange views with people, no matter what their perspectives are. I think we have a lot of problems in our society and we need to be finding ways to talk to people. We need to find ways to talk to people where not everything is completely transparent. Libertarianism is not synonymous with radical transparency. That’s often an argument that Stasi would make in East Germany, when everything had to be monitored by society. And I think you have the best conversations in smaller groups where not everything is being monitored. That’s how you can have very honest conversations and you can think better about the future.” | Peter Thiel | 2016 |
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