Edgar Bronfman Jr. Quotes

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

I've got nothing to hide.

The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.

I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

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

Privacy, in my point of view, is a civil liberty that our Founding Fathers thought of a long time ago and concluded ... was an essential part of what it was to be an American.

The privacy and dignity of our citizens are being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen – a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.

If we [are] to fully discharge the serious responsibilities imposed upon us, the confidential character of our files must be inviolate.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

When awesome investigative power is entrusted to so many individuals, it is extremely important that they wield it with a proper regard for your constitutional rights, especially your right to privacy.

The Internet is unpoliceable essentially.

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

We don’t have to choose between preserving privacy and preventing terrorism. We do have to decide how much oversight and accountability there should be when the government conducts surveillance on its citizens.

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

Privacy is the right to do what you feel guilty about.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

This is not a case about one isolated iPhone. Rather, this case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe. The government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its user’s most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identify thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.