Mitchell Baker Quotes

I've got nothing to hide.

What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.

But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.

I have nothing to hide!

I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.

Hopefully, people will look at our stance on privacy in general and know that we're not trying to operate outside of a fairly distinct line that we're drawing. I hope that people trust us to do the right thing there.

We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.

The nice thing about my job being CSO at Facebook is that it is well understood here that there is not a trade-off between the trust people have in us and our growth.

The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

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

Snowden's revelations shocked the world and made it very clear why we need to have some way to look over those who look over us. With increasing terrorist attacks, security is critical, but not without any accountability or oversight.

Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They're right. But these 'protections' are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.

When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.

There are definitely problems with technology companies, mostly around privacy, in my opinion, and the fact that they don't protect our privacy and we haven't passed privacy laws.

User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.

We all want safe, secure, private data, but we also want safe and secure communities. And we can have both. I really do believe that.

I think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.

A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.

Without trust, you cannot do anything.

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

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

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

If your plumber or pool installer or local appliance store uses HubSpot software, HubSpot may be holding information about you without you even knowing it. We figure we're safe when we use online services. We figure we can trust the people who run them not to snoop on us. I used to believe that. I don't anymore.