Margrethe Vestager Quotes

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

We need a basic protection for people having access to their data and knowing where their data is.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

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

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?

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.

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.

It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists.

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

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.

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

When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.

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.

As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.

As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

Individuals deserve the right to control what happens to their personal data at any given moment -- not only after someone else has obtained it, perhaps even without consent.

We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data.

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

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.

With big data comes big responsibilities.