Andrew Keen Quotes

I apologize to all of my colleagues who've been writing up storms, but as a culture we've essentially put ourselves into a position where Mark Zuckerberg can say, "Privacy as a social norm is no longer relevant," and a lot of people don't blink an eye.

Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you've spent years establishing on the world's dominant social network?

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.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

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.

We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products.

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.

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.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

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

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

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

The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.