Bruce Schneier Quotes

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single thing we buy creates a cloud of data. I'd like to have an option to not have a record of how much I tipped, or what I bought at 1:08 A.M. at a corner market in New York City.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.

I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.

Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.

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

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

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

Internet privacy is dwindling. Every purchase you make, flight you take, website you view, file you download, person you call, and e-mail you send is tracked. … and then stored indefinitely and often sold to the highest bidder—whoever that may be. Personal data, long thought to be confidential simply isn’t anymore.

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.

The Internet gave us access to everything, but it also gave everything access to us.

Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.

It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

It certainly woke me up to how vulnerable we all are. I think I was much more cavalier about it before I started working on the movie [Edward Snowden], and then the more I read the documents themselves and saw just how sweeping and indiscriminate the intrusions into our privacy have been, it made me more aware.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

Google won't break into your home. You'll invite them in.

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

I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?