Jared Cohen Quotes

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.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

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

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

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

In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

I think a lot of stuff like people's emails getting hacked or that an email you sent is stored on a hard drive somewhere, that kind of stuff worries me a little bit. It's a weird thought that someone else could get into my information that easily. That stuff's pretty scary.

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

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

I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place - absolute privacy - that we have not been to before.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.