Rick Smolan Quotes

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.

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

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.

We get more data about people than any other data company gets about people, about anything - and it's not even close. We're looking at what you know, what you don't know, how you learn best. The big difference between us and other big data companies is that we're not ever marketing your data to a third party for any reason.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data.

It is very important, to have a robust digital economy, that the citizens regain the trust in how their data are being processed and who can access them.

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

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

We all have legitimate concerns over the way our personal data is used and stored and it is right that there are protections to stop the theft and manipulation of our private information.

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.