Frank Abagnale Quotes

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.

There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.

I sent Trump a handwritten note requesting an interview with my cell-phone number in it. That was a huge mistake. You should never, ever give your cell-phone number to Donald Trump. You know what he did with it? He put it on the Internet.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

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.

If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection.

You can't trust the internet.

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.

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

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

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

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

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.

As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.

As more of our medical records are stored electronically, the threats to our privacy will increase.

There is no data base that is totally secure. The hackers are always one step ahead and have a vested interest in obtaining the data.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

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.

You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.