Wil Wheaton Quotes

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

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

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.

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.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

You can have Google or you can have privacy but you can’t have both.

In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses.

It's interesting - what are you willing to give up in terms of your privacy for access to other people? For access to things you think you desperately need. Ultimately, it's that old saying, isn't it? If the service is free, then the product is you. The thing being sold is you. There's a product for sale in you and your data.

Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

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.

I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.

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.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

Americans don’t need a big government to read their e-mail and track what else they do

Many of our customers have serious concerns about government surveillance of the Internet. We share their concerns.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

The ability of businesses to monitor our behavior is already a fact of life, and it isn't going away. Of course we must protect our privacy rights. But if we're smart, we'll also use the data that is being collected to improve our own lives.

What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does.

I'm not for the mass collection of data. I go the other way.