Ari Schwartz Quotations

There is a question of how secure you can make any e-mail system, ... especially if people are trying to hack it all the time.

There are many cases where there is no notice and consent. There are others where there is deceptive notice and consent.

He followed them from battered women's shelter to battered women's shelter. That's kind of the worst-case scenario.

We think companies should be pushing back. They're only going to be asked for more. These things are gradual. They see if they can get what they're asking for, and it gets bigger and bigger.

P3P is the first consumer privacy standard that gives individuals more choices. That's what we really think is promising about it. For Web publishers, P3P offers the ability to instill trust in their users.

While public records are generally available, the lines become blurred in cases like this where public records are tied to other information. It can move into a situation where it becomes a direct violation of someone's privacy.

We think this bill raises some good issues,

Seems as though it takes a violation of peoples' privacy to make people pay attention.

Privacy is a gray area when it comes to information access on the Internet. And the grayest areas often concern public records issues.

Privacy is a gray area when it comes to information access on the Internet, ... And the grayest areas often concern public records issues.

The Bush administration, and the president chief among them, has said from the beginning of the term that it wants to keep more information secret, especially during the deliberative process. We've seen that happen already with Enron, ... And now there are concerns about terrorism. Some of that is legitimate, and some is an overreaction.

It's too early to say whether an Internet privacy bill will be passed this year. It depends on other agenda issues like tax and campaign finance that need to be settled first. It's on the radar screen; some have even said it is the radar screen, but I don't think that's so.

Generally when we think about privacy and the government, we want to make sure that the government is transparent and does protect privacy over and above the rest of the Internet and the rest of the private and nonprofit sector,

The civil liberties board is supposed to be the first contact for the president to talk about privacy and intelligence matters. We didn't know about the NSA piece when the intelligence-reform bill was put forward, but it would have been helpful to have the experts at the civil liberties board involved at the beginning.