Data Regulation Quotes

It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists.

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

It isn't citizens, or Congress, who decide how our information network regulates itself. We don't get to decide how information companies collect data, and we don't get to decide how transparent they should be. The tech companies do that all by themselves.

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.

Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data from Russian citizens on Russian soil just to prevent other countries from playing the same kind of legal games we're playing in this Microsoft case.

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'

When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.

You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.