Tom Anderson Quotes

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.

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

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

An Internet service provider reasonably needs to know your name and address. But it's hard to imagine why a provider would need to collect your Internet browsing habits other than to sell your data.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.

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

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

We don't want privacy so much as privacy settings.

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.

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

Internet privacy is dwindling. Every purchase you make, flight you take, website you view, file you download, person you call, and e-mail you send is tracked. … and then stored indefinitely and often sold to the highest bidder—whoever that may be. Personal data, long thought to be confidential simply isn’t anymore.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

[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.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

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.

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

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.