Marc Rotenberg Quotations

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.