Digital Safety Quotes

Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.

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

We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.

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

I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.

Learning what's happening in children's digital life is the best way to ensure that they're safe.

Just as we ban smoking and drinking for under 16, because we want to shield young people from their harmful effects, we should do the same for smartphones.

Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.

You can't trust the internet.

I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

I worry about my grandchildren because the Internet can be brutal.

We don't have rules that people can't use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible. We certainly don't want them to do anything that's going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.

When we're splitting our time between a physical and digital world, you have to stay safe online the same way you stay safe offline.

Weaken American encryption and consumers - both good and bad actors - will simply seek their technology from companies based abroad. Weaker encryption also means weaker national security.

I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it.

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

Trolls and cyber bullies have been feeling too safe in the cyber world for too long.

I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.

Digital safety is no different to physical safety. You can do your upmost to minimise it. You can arm yourself to protect yourself, but in the end there are criminals everywhere and that's the way of the world.

I can't go on Tinder; I'll get in trouble.

A global world needs global firewalls.

I know there are a lot of comics that put their kids all over social media, but I think it's weird. There are over 100,000 people following you. To me, it feels like you should probably tone that down.

Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don't hesitate to report and block.

This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.