Anne Wojcicki Quotes

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.

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

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 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.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

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.

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.

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.

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.

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

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

People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.

I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes.

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 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.

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

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

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

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

We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and respect the user's voice. And that's important to us on a global basis. Someone doesn't sign up for a service expecting that their sign up information is going to be handed over without them being asked... We're going to defend our users' rights.

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

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

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