Tom Petty Quotes

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

I don't want to be on the Internet.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.

My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject.

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

I have no privacy anymore.

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

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

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.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

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.