William Gibson Quotes

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

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To trust so much in our devices and sync everyone's device up - we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to - and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points... of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.

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

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.

You can have Google or you can have privacy but you can’t have both.

Google, Facebook, and the thousands of other companies that seek to join their ranks do more every day to collect data about you and I than any surveillance state could ever accomplish. They track our behavior, our communications. The moment to moment decisions we make in every room of our house

It's interesting - what are you willing to give up in terms of your privacy for access to other people? For access to things you think you desperately need. Ultimately, it's that old saying, isn't it? If the service is free, then the product is you. The thing being sold is you. There's a product for sale in you and your data.

Privacy is a thing of the past.

An Internet service provider reasonably needs to know your name and address. But it's hard to imagine why a provider would need to collect your Internet browsing habits other than to sell your data.

Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.

I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.