Background Quote by Heather Brooke

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and…

— John Poindexter

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

— Cathy O'Neil

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…

— Anne Applebaum

Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists,…

— Edward Snowden

In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need…

— Richard Stallman

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need…

— Richard Stallman

Corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, all of these large companies, are making tens or hundreds of billions of dollars off of monetising people's data.

— Brittany Kaiser

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

— Glenn Greenwald

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered…

— Kevin Mitnick

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.

— Melissa Bean

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

When dealing with data, scientists have often struggled to account for the risks and harms using it might inflict. One primary concern has been…

— Kate Crawford