Pavel Durov Quotes

It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.

We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and respect the user's voice. And that's important to us on a global basis. Someone doesn't sign up for a service expecting that their sign up information is going to be handed over without them being asked... We're going to defend our users' rights.

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

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

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

Privacy and confidentiality have always been among our core values. So the question is how to remain true to them in a changing technological and legal environment

Many of our customers have serious concerns about government surveillance of the Internet. We share their concerns.

… corporations do almost everything that the federal government has been banned from doing under various laws, in particular the Privacy Act of 1974.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

[T]he [Facebook] settlement sends a powerful message about the importance of privacy. The cost of privacy violations like Facebook’s just increased dramatically. And if the need for companies to take privacy commitments seriously was not clear before, it is now.

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.

I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place - absolute privacy - that we have not been to before.

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.

An Internet service provider reasonably needs to know your name and address. But it's hard to imagine why a provider would need to collect your Internet browsing habits other than to sell your data.

Privacy is an age of universal email collection and spying, with millions of CCTV cameras and warrantless spying pervasive; privacy has become virtually nonexistent and, therefore, extremely scarce and desirable. Bitcoin can be a completely anonymous transaction that maintains the user's privacy beyond the reach of any authority.

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

The Apple imperative is to build a system that is 100 per cent resistant to any government warrant. The data on your iPhone, no matter how swarmy, corrupt, or dangerous you are, is supposedly safe. That's also the proposition of Panamanian banking laws.

We're learning that, when it comes to enterprise users or otherwise, privacy is very important. Some features might work well for enterprise customers and may not work for consumers. You've got to have balance.

Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

You can have Google or you can have privacy but you can’t have both.

It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

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.

The sheer amount of information captured from the average Google user makes this company a particularly big threat.