Dito Montiel Quotes

Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

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

The Internet gave us access to everything, but it also gave everything access to us.

I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

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

Privacy is a thing of the past.

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.

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

Facebook and Google are battling over who will be our gateway to the rest of the Internet through 'like' buttons and universal logins - giving them huge power over our online identities and activities.

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.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

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

I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant, and I'll get home, and somebody tweeted, and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

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

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.