Able Quote by Leon Panetta

Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements…

— Lawrence Lessig

“Corporations will have to get over their privacy and liability concerns and give government agencies the security data those agencies say they need in…

— Ted Koppel

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into…

— Angela Merkel

It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.

— David Ignatius

The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The…

— Joel Bakan

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

— Barton Gellman

Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.

— John McAfee

Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested…

— Joel Bakan

Every data breach violates the public's trust, and I'm working with my colleagues to force corporations to change their behavior and prevent them moving…

— Josh Shapiro

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that…

— Kevin Mitnick

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will…

— Adam Cohen

We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.

— Rand Paul