Jason Chaffetz Quotes

In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

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.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.

I'm very protective of my online life, and I try and take as many security measures.

Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want.

Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too.

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

If you don't treat [computer and Internet] security like a religious fanatic, you are going to be hurt like you can't imagine.

On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure.