Melissa Bean Quotes

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

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.

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

We tend to assume that data is either private or public, either owned by one person or shared by many. In fact there's more to it than that, above and beyond the upsetting reality that private data is now anything but.

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

People voluntarily surrender personal and seemingly private information to trans-national corporations which exploit that data for profit. Few think twice about it.

There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don't file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That's not been done.

We take privacy very seriously and have privacy a policy and our intention is never to sell any customer data.

We all have legitimate concerns over the way our personal data is used and stored and it is right that there are protections to stop the theft and manipulation of our private information.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

I think, in general, data protection really matters.

As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

Everybody talks about candidate tax returns, and they release those - well, most. But medical records, that's another thing, and that arguably might be more important or relevant than somebody's tax return.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit.

We need a basic protection for people having access to their data and knowing where their data is.

What if in a permission-based structure, you could decide if you wanted to provide value to advertisers or to political groups? Or, for instance, share your medical data for cancer research? All those options should be available for an individual to make.

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

Your emotions are very personal, as personal as your data gets.

Individuals should be able to monetise their own data - that's their own human value - not to be exploited.

I don't think anyone would object to Facebook selling ads or having ads directed at me, as long as people didn't think those ads were manipulated by personal data.

If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.