Edward Snowden Quotes

There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.

Hopefully, the world will not have a lot of different privacy standards requirements--particularly some commonality between the United States and Europe.

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don't know your birthday. We don't know your home address. We don't know where you work. We don't know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

For a while, I couldn't join Facebook because of my last name. During the registration process, I was asked for my real name, and when I wrote 'Fake,' it rejected me. Finally, a friend working for Facebook took care of me.

Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone.

There is a saying that if you get something for free, you should know that you're the product. It was never more true than in the case of Facebook and Gmail and YouTube. You get free social-media services, and you get free funny cat videos. In exchange, you give up the most valuable asset you have, which is your personal data.

DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

I accept you need the right balance, people do need to know their privacy is protected, but when it's essential information which will be dealt with by security agencies... I do feel the public interest overrides that.

I think companies need to put up tools that put privacy and security in the hands of their users and make it easy to understand those tools. In Google's case, two-step verification is a perfect example of this.

When we talk with policymakers about Facebook, it's about how users have control over information.

It's a day-one expectation that when you buy a processor, it's not going to leak your data.

I am not the kind of person who narrates every aspect of my life on social media; it's about posting things that are important to me.

As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things.

As a general rule, I wouldn't put anything in a text or e-mail or on social media that I wouldn't want the whole world to see.

Our main concern will always be security.

People want to have some assurance that their privacy, their data is going to be protected.

I don't think anyone would object to Facebook selling ads or having ads directed at me, as long as people didn't think those ads were manipulated by personal data.

I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.