Dagen McDowell Quotes

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

I don't want pictures of my kids anywhere. I don't tweet pictures of my kids. I don't put them on any social media. I definitely do like to keep some privacy that way. And mostly, it's fear-based; people are crazy.

In this the age of concern over privacy invasion and surveillance and manipulation, people will start to realize that there is no way to avoid being manipulated by other people, governments, marketers, and the like.

When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand that in online life, too.

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly where her son is at every moment.

Many of our customers have serious concerns about government surveillance of the Internet. We share their concerns.

The NSA has thrown Silicon Valley under the bus.

The sheer amount of information captured from the average Google user makes this company a particularly big threat.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

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 haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy.

I have friends in this business who put pictures of their kids on Facebook. That's not something I would do.

What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does.

It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.