Eric S. Raymond Quotes

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

We need a basic protection for people having access to their data and knowing where their data is.

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

What if in a permission-based structure, you could decide if you wanted to provide value to advertisers or to political groups? Or, for instance, share your medical data for cancer research? All those options should be available for an individual to make.

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

Individuals deserve the right to control what happens to their personal data at any given moment -- not only after someone else has obtained it, perhaps even without consent.

If the government can manage to collect and release personal information in a secure and useful way, so can private companies, which will empower consumers to become better shoppers.

I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data.

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data.

It is very important, to have a robust digital economy, that the citizens regain the trust in how their data are being processed and who can access them.

Here is a guiding principle: If a business collects data on consumers electronically, it should provide them with a version of that data that is easy to download and export to another Web site.

I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes.

Our personal data belongs to us. Government holds it on trust.

There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.

Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners?

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.