Larry Ponemon Privacy Quotations

When you're dealing with millions of dollars of fines and not thousands of dollars, that's actually a wake up call to many organizations that right now are taking privacy issues too easily. I don't think it's a slap on the wrist.

Privacy is not just a compliance issue for the legal department. It should be a priority for everyone. You have to translate privacy into a customer issue because this is really becoming the holy grail of doing business for everyone in an on-line world.

We know a lot of organizations have posted privacy policies that they don't live by, ... We have to make it costly not to walk the walk. If you don't have an enforcement arm, you won't change bad players.

AOL's efforts in raising awareness and understanding about good privacy and data protection on the Internet is paying off in terms of positive consumer perception. This is an especially significant accomplishment given the rash of privacy issues such as phishing and spam that impact the ISP industry.