Glenn Greenwald Quotes

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

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.

With big data comes big responsibilities.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

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

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?

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.

If the government can manage to collect and release personal information in a secure and useful way, so can private companies, which will empower consumers to become better shoppers.

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

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.

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

Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

We get more data about people than any other data company gets about people, about anything - and it's not even close. We're looking at what you know, what you don't know, how you learn best. The big difference between us and other big data companies is that we're not ever marketing your data to a third party for any reason.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.