"People know everything about everybody now"
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Coming from Clooney, the subtext gets sharper. He’s a celebrity from the last era when fame still had borders: tabloid photos, late-night jokes, controlled interviews. Today, the audience isn’t just consuming a persona; they’re tracking metadata, freezing missteps into screenshots, and collapsing the distance between private citizen and public character. His “everybody” is doing heavy lifting, too. It flattens the old hierarchy - not only stars are surveilled. Your neighbor, your ex, your kid’s teacher: everyone is legible, indexable, and therefore judgeable.
The intent reads less like paranoia than a critique of how knowledge has mutated into power and entertainment at once. In this ecosystem, “knowing” becomes a sport, and being unknown starts to look suspicious. Clooney’s understatement is the point: it mirrors how casually we’ve accepted conditions that would’ve sounded dystopian a decade ago.
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| Topic | Privacy & Cybersecurity |
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Clooney, George. (2026, January 17). People know everything about everybody now. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-know-everything-about-everybody-now-67542/
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"People know everything about everybody now." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-know-everything-about-everybody-now-67542/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.









