Kate Crawford Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

We take privacy very seriously and have privacy a policy and our intention is never to sell any customer data.

We all have legitimate concerns over the way our personal data is used and stored and it is right that there are protections to stop the theft and manipulation of our private information.

I think, in general, data protection really matters.

We need a basic protection for people having access to their data and knowing where their data is.

People want to have some assurance that their privacy, their data is going to be protected.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

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.

We get more data about people than any other data company gets about people, about anything - and it's not even close. We're looking at what you know, what you don't know, how you learn best. The big difference between us and other big data companies is that we're not ever marketing your data to a third party for any reason.

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

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.

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

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.

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.

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.

I am completely opposed to the concept of big data.

I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

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.