Subramanian Swamy Quotes

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

As governor of RBI, Dr. Rajan has sent confidential and sensitive financial information to various persons around the world on his University of Chicago unsecure personal email address. This is a reckless disregard of the national security of India.

In the quest for perfect protection of Sony's intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus.

Who knows more about the usage of personal data than Cambridge Analytica?

It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

We tend to assume that data is either private or public, either owned by one person or shared by many. In fact there's more to it than that, above and beyond the upsetting reality that private data is now anything but.

If information is collected, it will be compromised. People have no idea of the way that data collected for one purpose may be used for another.

The data broker industry as it is today does not have constraints and does not have shame. It will sell any information about any person regardless of sensitivity … rape sufferers, victims of domestic violence, police officers home addresses …

I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

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 think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.

We all have legitimate concerns over the way our personal data is used and stored and it is right that there are protections to stop the theft and manipulation of our private information.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

As more of our medical records are stored electronically, the threats to our privacy will increase.

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.

There is no data base that is totally secure. The hackers are always one step ahead and have a vested interest in obtaining the data.