Bill Gates Quotes

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

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

… corporations do almost everything that the federal government has been banned from doing under various laws, in particular the Privacy Act of 1974.

It's interesting - what are you willing to give up in terms of your privacy for access to other people? For access to things you think you desperately need. Ultimately, it's that old saying, isn't it? If the service is free, then the product is you. The thing being sold is you. There's a product for sale in you and your data.

A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy

Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.

To trust so much in our devices and sync everyone's device up - we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to - and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points... of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.

Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

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

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

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.

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.