Joe Barton Quotes

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

People want to have some assurance that their privacy, their data is going to be protected.

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

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

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

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

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

Data leaks are impossible to reverse, so the best strategy is to prevent intruders from having prolonged, unfettered access to the systems in the first place.

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.

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.

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

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.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.

I think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.