Suzan DelBene Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It's in the best interest of organisations - when they're attacked and information is stolen - to tell nobody.

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.

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.

[T]he [Facebook] settlement sends a powerful message about the importance of privacy. The cost of privacy violations like Facebook’s just increased dramatically. And if the need for companies to take privacy commitments seriously was not clear before, it is now.

On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

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

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

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

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

Looking back, there hasn't been a single day in WhatsApp's 10 year journey when this service was secure.

I think, in general, data protection really matters.