Tim Cook Quotes

The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but not so awesome for other things. Because everything gets leaked nowadays.

In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.

It's about who owns the servers. The servers that store your metrics. The servers that shout the ads. The servers that transmit your chat. The servers that geofence your every movement.

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.

A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

You can't buy your privacy back. Because I was already doing OK, and to have this abstract amount of money now, I cannot buy my privacy back.

A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'

As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

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

If you have WhatsApp and your phone goes down, you don't have access to your messages. You can't send documents and it's not private.

Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.

You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don't know your birthday. We don't know your home address. We don't know where you work. We don't know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.

We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.

Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

Netflix is very protective with their information .

We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

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