Richard Thaler Quotes

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.

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

We should have companies required to get the consent of individuals before collecting their data, and we should have as individuals the right to know what's happening to our data and whether it's being transferred.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

It is very important, to have a robust digital economy, that the citizens regain the trust in how their data are being processed and who can access them.

People should have to opt in for any kind of data sharing, and they should know what the data is being used for.

You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.

When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.

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

What if in a permission-based structure, you could decide if you wanted to provide value to advertisers or to political groups? Or, for instance, share your medical data for cancer research? All those options should be available for an individual to make.

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

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.

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.

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

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.

As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.