Martin Winterkorn Quotes

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.

Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

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.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

I'm not for the mass collection of data. I go the other way.

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

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.

It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.

If your plumber or pool installer or local appliance store uses HubSpot software, HubSpot may be holding information about you without you even knowing it. We figure we're safe when we use online services. We figure we can trust the people who run them not to snoop on us. I used to believe that. I don't anymore.

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.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

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.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

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

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.

I am completely opposed to the concept of big data.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

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.