Evan Spiegel Quotes

We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

Remember, the Cloud is just someone else's server.

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

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

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.

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.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information?

If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.

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.

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

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.