Brendan Eich Quotes

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

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?

At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product, and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.

The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

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

Brave browsers block everything: initial signaling/analytics scripts that start the programmatic advertising 'dirty pipe', impression-tracking pixels, and ad-click confirmation signals.

Here is one iron law of the Internet: a social network's emphasis on monetizing its product is directly proportional to its users' loss of privacy.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

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

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?

Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.

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.

People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.

Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.

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

My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

We share no data with the government anywhere in the world.

People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.

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

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.