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You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership. -- Rick Smolan
TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue. -- John Poindexter
According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen. -- Luis Gutierrez
I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy. -- Marsha Blackburn
Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads. -- Jose Ferreira
Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data. -- Michael Bennet
Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that. -- John Battelle
I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused. -- Michael Arrington
As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used. -- Rick Smolan
Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy. -- will.i.am
Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you." -- Benjamin Wittes

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