John Palfrey Quotes (24 Quotes)

Intruders are now in your house without your permission. They entered through your computer to bombard you with sneaky pop-ups and install tracking software to spy on your every move and steal your most personal information.

Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.

We chose four quite common applications to highlight, and we have found that in each instance the applications do things to violate the guidelines.

For too long, these companies have been able to hide in the shadows of the Internet. What we're after is a more accountable Internet.

The bloom is off the rose for the Internet industry. There is a sense that American companies have a higher obligation than has been practiced in China in recent years.

You need to avoid any one entity having too much control over the ecosystem.

On the one hand, these are important, critical issues for the future of democracy in the world, and on the other, they're thorny and unpleasant to talk about. It's a massive brewing dispute.

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.

There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.

That's when you'll see the true colors of the company on this topic.

There's a cat-and-mouse game going on between states that seek to control the information environment and citizens who seek to speak freely online. Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

There's a fine line between legitimate advertising practices and unwanted advertising practices, and finding where that line falls is a difficult one.

There is no question that the Chinese government is far and away the most adept of any state at blocking access to sensitive political content online,

It's related to the problems that Yahoo and Microsoft and others are facing in China, ... but here the issue is that these technology security companies are directly profiting from the censorship regime itself.

We think of it as a neighborhood watch.

For too long, unscrupulous companies have made millions of dollars infecting our computers with malicious software. This is so dangerous because there are intruders in your house, but you don't know that they are in there or how they got there.

But if anyone can manage to mitigate such a risk, it is no doubt the Chinese,

It's much harder to enforce codes of conduct when the operations of our companies are carried out in other countries by subsidiaries or companies in which they've invested that are chartered in those countries. It's not that there's nothing Congress can do, it's just that it takes more political will.

Other companies that follow similar practices beware This is just the beginning of what we hope to identify and publicize.

While you can certainly build a community online, it only thrives with face-to-face interaction. Starting with the Internet, however, might not be a terrible idea.

It's putting the providers of this software on notice that we're going to be paying attention.

We think there's enormous value ... in giving consumers more control and giving them more information before they do something that could be damaging to their computers. The longer-term goal is we hope that these reports ... will lead the providers of applications to operate more openly and more transparently.

The state's abilities in terms of content control online -- through a mixture of methods -- should not be underestimated.