Data Quote by Anne Applebaum

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…

— Franklin Foer

Our personal data belongs to us. Government holds it on trust.

— Dominic Grieve

There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want…

— Heather Brooke

I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data.

— Naveen Tewari

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place.…

— John Perry Barlow

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society…

— Chelsea Manning

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in…

— Eli Pariser

“Dragnet surveillance capitalists such as Facebook, Comcast, AT&T and Google, unfortunately, supply these manipulating forces with an endless supply of metadata for this information…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's…

— David McCandless

We should have companies required to get the consent of individuals before collecting their data, and we should have as individuals the right to…

— Ro Khanna

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

— Aaron Swartz

If we allow the United States to set the precedent that national borders don't matter when it comes to the protection of people's information,…

— Edward Snowden