Mark Walport Quotes

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

With big data comes big responsibilities.

There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.

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.

Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

We get more data about people than any other data company gets about people, about anything - and it's not even close. We're looking at what you know, what you don't know, how you learn best. The big difference between us and other big data companies is that we're not ever marketing your data to a third party for any reason.

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

Collect it all!

Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.

If the government can manage to collect and release personal information in a secure and useful way, so can private companies, which will empower consumers to become better shoppers.

Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

Our data has been harvested, collected, modeled, and monetized - sometimes sold on as raw data, and sometimes licensed just for advertisers to be able to target us.