Jeffrey Rosen Quotes

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

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.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

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

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

This is not a case about one isolated iPhone. Rather, this case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe. The government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its user’s most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identify thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.

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.

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.

There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

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

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

I don't really use Facebook, because I find it a bit intrusive on your personal life.

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

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

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.