Marc Rotenberg Quotations

We know from many other examples that there are lots of security breaches that occur across the country. There's no reason to think this will be any different.

We're not big fans for the posting of privacy policies because what is much more important is privacy practice.

One of the seemingly unsolvable problems is what do you do when someone is wrongly put on this watch list. If there are that many people on the list, a lot of them probably shouldn't be there. But how are they ever going to get off?

Key escrow would not have prevented what took place. And the rush to establish Draconian security controls may do very little to provide greater safety for Americans. They would, however, provide a great cost in terms of freedom.

Key escrow would not have prevented what took place, ... And the rush to establish Draconian security controls may do very little to provide greater safety for Americans. They would, however, provide a great cost in terms of freedom.

Jason is one of the leaders in the privacy communities. He's tremendously effective. He gets things done.

I think in broad terms that is still a form of spying. Some people say, ?Well, it's justified.' I'm not so clear that should be the case. Particularly if the reason you are passing legislation is to cover that activity.

We need to be on guard here a bit, ensuring that when technology is used, it's effective and respects constitutional principles.

There is no scenario where it makes sense for a company to take record of who we've called each month and make that data available for sale.

We think it's very useful that people can go to the Internet and get a lot of information, but we think it's appropriate to draw the line where personal information is given at a Web site.

We had raised some of the antitrust issues in our complaint, but the FTC's position was that they really did not have antitrust authority in this matter, so they were focusing solely on the privacy and security questions.

Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come.

Normally, your license plate number only becomes relevant when you're involved in an accident, pulled over by police or when your car is stolen. This technology changes that. ... It's a new form of surveillance.

Once you enable third-party access to Internet-based communication, you create a vulnerability that didn't previously exist. It will put at risk the stability and security of the Internet.

The United States today experiences much higher levels of identity theft, spam and government profiling than Europe because we have failed to establish necessary legal safeguards.

This can be more like Big Brother than legitimate tax collection. There has to be oversight.

This has a big implication for the national debate.

They're particularly effective and ... there are particular privacy issues.

It was big stuff. We were fighting to save the soul of the internet.

It's sweeping, in terms of its impact, and we hope this is the start of better practices on Microsoft's part.

Congress should not reauthorize the Patriot Act until these questions are resolved.

That information will dovetail with the Real ID Act of 2005. Real ID cards are the other shoe that is scheduled to drop in three years.

It's an extremely precise statement of what seems, 35 years later, to be the central constitutional question just now.

This is a very important development in terms of online privacy.

On balance, we think that consumers are more at risk today than they were in 1997 when we first examined privacy practices on the Web,

The Federal Trade Commission has a statutory obligation to safeguard the interests of consumers in the online marketplace. This case is a test of the FTC's ability to act in the public interest.

The FCC simply does not have the statutory authority to extend the 1994 law for the telephone system to the twenty-first century Internet.

In terms of how information is collected and used on the Internet, ... to allow detailed secret profiles to be created is disastrous.

Because Amazon announced that it could no longer guarantee that it would not disclose customer information to third parties, and in the absence of legal or technical means to assure privacy for Amazon customers, we have decided that we can no longer continue our relationship with Amazon.

I don't think cookies should be out there at all, ... but the good news here is that consumers are at least becoming more sophisticated about the appropriate use of cookies.

The changing structure and nature of the workplace has led to more invasive and often covert monitoring practices that call into question employees' most basic rights to privacy and dignity.

The collection of this data by automated means creates new privacy risks.

A name is now no longer a simple identifier; it is the key to a vast, cross-referenced system of public and private databases, which lay bare the most intimate features of an individual's life,

We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

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A company shouldn't take value from people's private messages.

Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.

There's a growing sense that the online ad industry is out of control from a privacy perspective and that some rules need to be put in place.