Anna Eshoo Quotes

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.

I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Basic labeling and consumer information hasn’t been a chief priority, but hopefully now its starting to change.

I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.

Consumers have the right to know important information about the service they are choosing to purchase and/or use.

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

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.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.

Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

The true test of a privacy policy is the remedy to consumers if their privacy is invaded.

From the right to know will flow the right to demand, and get, tougher laws and safer practices.

I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.

The ability of businesses to monitor our behavior is already a fact of life, and it isn't going away. Of course we must protect our privacy rights. But if we're smart, we'll also use the data that is being collected to improve our own lives.

The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable.

As consumers, we are making choices, and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.