Jonathan Zittrain Quotes

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.

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.

I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but not so awesome for other things. Because everything gets leaked nowadays.

It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

We can't allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who's looking at your page. That's a violation of privacy.

Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.

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.

Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants to be able to see it.

Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp.

Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.

The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

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

I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

I don't like showing my privacy online.