Barton Gellman Quotes

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

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

Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.

Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

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

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.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

We can't allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who's looking at your page. That's a violation of privacy.

The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening around the world, we can also be watched.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.

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

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.

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.

I am aware of some of the things about me on the Internet - like people putting up pictures of me online every single day on something called Rachel Watch!

I'm not a fan of the #DeleteFacebook campaign. I think that they can reform.

To be honest, I deliberately tend not to post things like 'I'm having a relationship' or where I live. I'm a bit reluctant to keep this kind of information up to date because people are inclined to see things like that as statements, and I rather keep a little bit of privacy, if possible at all.