John Battelle Quotes

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

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.

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.

People should have to opt in for any kind of data sharing, and they should know what the data is being used for.

It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists.

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

We should have companies required to get the consent of individuals before collecting their data, and we should have as individuals the right to know what's happening to our data and whether it's being transferred.

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

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

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

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.

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

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.

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?

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.

Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

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.

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.

In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.