Hans Rosling Quotes

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

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.

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.

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

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.

When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?

Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

The fruits of science and innovation have nourished our society and economy for years, but nations unable to navigate our regulatory system are often excluded, as are vulnerable individuals.

23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.

No one really knows how many [SBU] records are covered or for how long, and there are practically none of the limits that we do have in the security classification world.

Privacy and confidentiality have always been among our core values. So the question is how to remain true to them in a changing technological and legal environment

Technology has always run ahead of legislation.

… corporations do almost everything that the federal government has been banned from doing under various laws, in particular the Privacy Act of 1974.

Technology is always ahead of the law.

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

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.

[T]he [Facebook] settlement sends a powerful message about the importance of privacy. The cost of privacy violations like Facebook’s just increased dramatically. And if the need for companies to take privacy commitments seriously was not clear before, it is now.

Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.

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.

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