Washington Post Editorial Board:

This is an important moment in which technology, privacy and the rule of law are colliding.

Maciej Ceglowski:

Surveillance as a business model is the only thing that makes a site like Facebook possible.

Sam Lessin, the head of Facebook's Identity Product Group:

The more you tell the world about yourself, the more the world can give you what you want.

Nathan Jurgenson:

Big Data always stands in the shadow of the bigger data to come.

Bruce Sterling:

The wolf's not at the door, the wolf's in the living room.

Tom Whipple:

In a world controlled by algorithms, sometimes the most apparently innocuous of processes can have unintended consequences.

Chris Coyne:

Time was, all these things we said in passing were ephemeral. We could conveniently pretend to forget. Or actually forget. Thanks to the way our lives have changed, we no longer have that option.

Maciej Ceglowski:

I've come to believe that a lot of what's wrong with the Internet has to do with memory.

David Bromwich:

We have acquired an irrepressible eagerness to watch the lives of others. We pay to be the spectators of our own loss of privacy.

Hanna Rosin:

In all my years as a parent, I've mostly met children who take it for granted that they are always being watched.

John Markoff:

During the past 15 years, video cameras have been placed in a vast number of public and private spaces. In the future, the software operating the cameras will not only be able to identify particular humans via facial recognition, experts say, but also identify certain types of behavior, perhaps even automatically alerting authorities.

Jacob Kastrenakes:

Your bag of potato chips can hear what you're saying.

Douglas Bonderud:

When it's all said and done, there's no such thing as a "free" app -- and the real cost is measured in data, not dollars.

Dan Geer:

A right to be forgotten is the only check on the tidal wave of observability that a ubiquitous sensor fabric is birthing now, observability that changes the very quality of what "in public" means.

Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton:

We have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has.

Nicholas Carr:

As we habituate ourselves to [technology, it] comes to exert more power over us, not less. We may be oblivious to the constraints it imposes on our lives, but the constraints remain.

Alistair Croll:

The better we are at predicting the future, the less we'll be willing to share our fates with others. And the more those predictions look like facts, the more justice looks like thoughtcrime.