Fred Wilson:

Privacy is pretty black and white. It either is or it isn't. And trying to have it both ways won't work.

Tom Cross:

We need to balance privacy interests with the state's interest in monitoring suspected criminals.

Howard Schmidt:

We seek to enable a future where individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital certificate on their cell phone, etc) from a variety of service providers -- both public and private -- to authenticate themselves online ...

Steven Bellovin:

People often suggest that adding strong identification to the Internet will solve many security problems. Strong, useful identification isn't possible and wouldn't solve the security issue; trying to have it will create privacy problems.

Eric Schmidt:

The explosion in online consumer monitoring is increasing friction about how strict privacy limits should be. And it's going to get a lot worse.

Pete Warden:

Do we actually prefer that our information is for sale, rather than free? Or are we just comfortable with a 'privacy through obscurity' regime?

Richard Wiseman:

We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves.

danah boyd:

Just because technology can record things doesn't mean that it brings attention to them. So people rely on being obscure, even when technology makes that really uncertain. You may think that they shouldn't rely on being obscure, but asking everyone to be paranoid about everyone else in the world is a very very very unhealthy thing.

Margaret Talbot:

The unobserved life is so totally worth living.