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The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

In this Internet age of shared information, even if you don't tell the people, they will find out.

To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.