Digital Privacy Quotes

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

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.

Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies.

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

The spread of strong consumer encryption technology around the globe is inevitable;

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

The Fourth Amendment is quite clear on the notion that search and seizure must not be unreasonable. It is difficult to think of something more unreasonable than searching the private phone records and digital information of citizens who are suspected of nothing.

Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

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.

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

We face two overlapping challenges. The first concerns real-time court-ordered interception of what we call 'data in motion,' such as phone calls, e-mail, and live chat sessions. The second challenge concerns court-ordered access to data stored on our devices, such as e-mail, text messages, photos, and videos - or what we call 'data at rest.'

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

I do believe when there are advances in technology that it is important to balance the privacy interests affected with the investigative take that you might get from that technology.

Political oppositionary activity on the Russian Internet caused the government to pass laws limiting both service operators and users. As a result, the Russian tech environment became much less liberal, losing freedom as one of its competitive advantages.