Valerie Plame Quotes

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.

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

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her unsecure server did not meet that standard.

The most pervasive cyber threat to the U.S. financial sector is from cyber criminals.

I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.

When Target gets hacked, I don't hear people saying, 'Hey, was it Kohl's? Was it Wal-Mart?' It doesn't matter. There was a hack; you deal with it.

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

People want to have some assurance that their privacy, their data is going to be protected.

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.

I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It's in the best interest of organisations - when they're attacked and information is stolen - to tell nobody.

Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.