Privacies

And to savour Japan, it makes most sense to seek out its privacies, its secret corners; until I came here, I never realised that the society famous for its conformist surfaces is – for that very reason, perhaps – a home to wild obsessives, who have collected every King Crimson bootleg in existence or will show you their collection of videos of ancient Hawaii Five-O episodes. ❋ Pico Iyer (2010)

Still, I oppose laws that erode privacies, especially those that permit "invasions" based on idle suspicions and not "probable cause". gpkisner ❋ Unknown (2009)

… Or would you like to put a caveat in there for applying other aspects of the US Constitution in order to invalidate previous rulings, or to challenge current law – when it comes to expanding social liberties and privacies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's good to see it now will be, and that Facebook has made clear their intent to move towards a policy that more explicitly safeguards the copyrights and privacies of its users. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The effect is of privacy in public, a sheathing of the self, which makes the gym less a forum for breezy civic congregation than a hive of composite privacies, whose symbol might be the headphones that insulate against the gurning, expectorating, and muscular strife all about. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)

They may indeed have a case for deploying this high-tech military spec equipment but let's see it put to challenge and test first, let's see the solid business case for the large amounts of taxpayers money it will involve and let's understand exactly how our traditional individual liberties and privacies will be protected. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Phillipson, who is the great expert on the Scottish Enlightenment, has little new by way of what Dr Johnson (in his essay on biography in the Rambler of 13 October 1750) called the "domestic privacies". ❋ Unknown (2010)

[T] hey apply to all invasions on the part of the government and its employees of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The principle underlying the Fourth and Fifth Amendments is protection against invasions of the sanctities of a man's home and privacies of life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Occasionally the books offer far more than a trace of that elusive quarry Duffy calls “the innermost thoughts and most sacred privacies of late medieval people.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

The only hope is that now MPs... might be more mindful of the liberties - and privacies - of others. ❋ Unknown (2009)