Barton Gellman Quotes

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.

I think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.

I think, in general, data protection really matters.

You no longer can say that inside a company everything is trusted because you could bring in a contaminated device. And it's the same thing with data, because so much is no longer stored inside a company.

People want to have some assurance that their privacy, their data is going to be protected.

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

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

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.

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.

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

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

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

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

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single thing we buy creates a cloud of data. I'd like to have an option to not have a record of how much I tipped, or what I bought at 1:08 A.M. at a corner market in New York City.

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

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

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.