Vint Cerf Quotes

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

I have nothing to hide!

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

I don't believe in privacy. I mean, I like the idea of privacy, but I don't believe that it happens anymore. I think privacy is something, I am afraid, we seem to be waving goodbye to.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

I really fight for my privacy.

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

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.

We’ve lost the line between public and private.

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

If we give up all our privacy rights, have we become any safer?

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

I do believe when there are advances in technology that it is important to balance the privacy interests affected with the investigative take that you might get from that technology.

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.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

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.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.