Jason Catlett Quotes (22 Quotes)

I'm not sure Passport's going to fly, but in case it does we have to try to protect the privacy of the people who use it. It could end up being the largest surveillance mechanism in history.

Engage has done many good things to protect privacy, but my worry is they are firing the starting gun in the race for the bottom,

Microsoft should be stopped from stating or implying that having a Passport issued by Microsoft is necessary to obtain access to the Internet. Microsoft is not lord of the Internet.

It's intolerable that e-mail can be used to silently zap a name tag onto you that might be scanned by a site you visit later. It's like secretly bar-coding people with invisible ink,

We regard this as information that Intel behaved deceptively.

The Internet reduces the cost of gathering information about consumers to practically zero, ... Sending a piece of direct mail to a household costs about one dollar, so no one is going to send you 10,000 pieces of mail, but the cost of contacting you in the online world is virtually zero.

The addition of P3P is completely non-responsive to the specific allegations of illegal behavior that we charged Microsoft with, ... They are replying with an answer, but the answer has nothing to do with the concerns.

I think privacy policies may be getting worse. They're getting longer, more difficult to understand, and filled with more loopholes.

By synchronizing cookies with name and address from e-mail, registrations, and e-commerce transactions, the merged company would have a surveillance database of Orwellian proportions.

AOL is the target of choice for spammers.

The worst actors will be left to use the most sophisticated surveillance techniques as they please.

Responses to direct marketing are dropping in general. More and more people just throw mail away - especially unmarked mail - without opening it.

A common tactic in direct mail is to disguise the nature of the solicitation and send you something that doesn't indicate what's inside, to make you open the envelope. People aren't opening the 'mystery envelopes' right now.

We're outraged at that. It turns out to be a piece of sleight of hand on Intel's part because they were never in control over whether the ID feature would be turned off. It's always been in the control of the OEMs PC makers.

My initial concept was deplorably vague. All I knew was that the Internet and privacy were on a collision course.

A lot of people think government is the primary threat to privacy, ... long been surpassed by private companies.

There's an absence of consumer rights and a large number of small actors who are mostly criminals. Dealing with them is like swatting flies one by one, rather than putting up a fence to keep out all the dogs.

If you're taking your laptop to Paris and you have to download your e-mail over an expensive long-distance phone call, you still have to download that stuff even if it's junked before you see it. It's really sweeping the cost under the carpet.

They all find out that you opened the mail and they get an invisible tracking number, so if you go to a store ... that number is reported to them and they can build that information into a database,

Amazon wants to protect themselves from later customer lawsuits that claim, 'We weren't told,' ... They also want to leave the door open if they need to sell off a division or claim bankruptcy. They know that their consumer database is one of their most v

Advertisers are already watching where people go on sites and now they're trying to get details of what is actually bought. Companies holding personal profiles should be required by law to handle the information with extreme care and only use it for the primary authorized purpose.

I guess it would be difficult, given the appalling state of Internet privacy, for the FTC to again recommend against federal privacy law,