Against Quote by John Battelle

The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating…

— Hans Blix

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have…

— Mark Walport

“In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.”

— Evan Angler

Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends…

— Tom Peters

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of…

— Harry S. Truman

¦actually getting documents is not so hard, the problem is publishing them and keeping them up in the face of attacks -both economic and…

— Julian Assange

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to…

— Jonathan Zittrain

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and…

— Allen Weinstein

Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?

— Heather Brooke

The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people…

— Robert Darnton

“Certain documents, such as the FISA court order allowing collection of telephone records and Obama’s presidential directive to prepare offensive cyber-operations, were among the…

— Glenn Greenwald

If we want protection, we need to start thinking of our data as our property, because, if no one has noticed, property is held…

— Brittany Kaiser