Richard Cohen Quotes

I like to keep certain stuff to myself just because I feel like technology is taking over people's lives.

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

I think we're going to look back on the Internet in 50 to 100 years as a big mistake.

You have to assume everything is going to end up online, even if you're alone in a hotel elevator.

No man should be on Facebook. It's an invasion of everyone's privacy. I really cannot stand it.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.

Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

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.

The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

In this Internet age of shared information, even if you don't tell the people, they will find out.

I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

Unfortunately, changing forms of Internet communication are quickly outpacing laws and technology designed to allow for the lawful intercept of communication content.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

Keeping a secret in the social media age often is impossible.