Ro Khanna Quotes

As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

Individuals deserve the right to control what happens to their personal data at any given moment -- not only after someone else has obtained it, perhaps even without consent.

We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data.

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.

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

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

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

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.

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

Consent allows individuals to set conditions for the use of their data, access the information relating to them that others have obtained, verify the accuracy of that information, check to make sure companies comply with the rules, and seek redress for any harm that results from the misuse of their data. Remove consent, and the other privacy checks and balances collapse.

People should have to opt in for any kind of data sharing, and they should know what the data is being used for.

Our personal data belongs to us. Government holds it on trust.

I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data.

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.

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.

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

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

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.

If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.