Quotes About Privacy

Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

We need to pass measures that protect consumers' private information while also encouraging new technological innovations.

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

We asked people why they didn't go to MySpace. A lot of people thought it was too hard to use, they thought it was a music site, or a content site. Privacy was a concern, or they'd say it was a site for teenagers.

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

I realized I don't have a safe means of communications. That's how Telegram started.

At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.