John Edwards Quotes

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

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

Internet privacy is dwindling. Every purchase you make, flight you take, website you view, file you download, person you call, and e-mail you send is tracked. … and then stored indefinitely and often sold to the highest bidder—whoever that may be. Personal data, long thought to be confidential simply isn’t anymore.

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

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

One can doubt the sincerity of the technology community’s outrage over the NSA’s surveillance practices—doubt, for example, that the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose company reportedly stores petabytes’ worth of data about its billion-plus active monthly users, was shocked at the thought of mass data collection.

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.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

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.

If information is gathered, history shows that it will be used at some time.

In our view, the current storage by the government of bulk meta-data creates potential risks to public trust, personal privacy, and civil liberty.

People voluntarily surrender personal and seemingly private information to trans-national corporations which exploit that data for profit. Few think twice about it.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

The sheer amount of information captured from the average Google user makes this company a particularly big threat.

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

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.

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

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.