Gijs de Vries Quotes

The Aadhar data that was leaked to American companies was, in a way, a betrayal to the country.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

As governor of RBI, Dr. Rajan has sent confidential and sensitive financial information to various persons around the world on his University of Chicago unsecure personal email address. This is a reckless disregard of the national security of India.

In the quest for perfect protection of Sony's intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

If information is collected, it will be compromised. People have no idea of the way that data collected for one purpose may be used for another.

Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her unsecure server did not meet that standard.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

We can't allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who's looking at your page. That's a violation of privacy.

From a counter-intelligence viewpoint, the OPM breach is really scary - but if we continue to see the erosion of purely commercial enterprises, where people lose confidence, the economy falters.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.