Eric Yuan Quotes

Privacy and confidentiality have always been among our core values. So the question is how to remain true to them in a changing technological and legal environment

For WhatsApp to become a privacy-oriented service, it has to risk losing entire markets and clashing with authorities in their home country.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and respect the user's voice. And that's important to us on a global basis. Someone doesn't sign up for a service expecting that their sign up information is going to be handed over without them being asked... We're going to defend our users' rights.

When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want some sites to understand my habits. It helps them suggest books for me to read or movies for my family to watch or friends for us to connect with.

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

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

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

We don't want privacy so much as privacy settings.

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.

There is no communication between the Census Bureau and the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] and the INS [Immigration & Naturalization Service]. None. Zero. Zilch.

It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

… corporations do almost everything that the federal government has been banned from doing under various laws, in particular the Privacy Act of 1974.

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.

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

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses.

I want the world's data accessible.

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.

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

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

Here is a guiding principle: If a business collects data on consumers electronically, it should provide them with a version of that data that is easy to download and export to another Web site.

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.

Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.

Hopefully, people will look at our stance on privacy in general and know that we're not trying to operate outside of a fairly distinct line that we're drawing. I hope that people trust us to do the right thing there.