John Twelve Hawks Quotes

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

We can't allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who's looking at your page. That's a violation of privacy.

Privacy is a thing of the past.

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant, and I'll get home, and somebody tweeted, and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.

We don't want privacy so much as privacy settings.

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.