Digital Rights Quotes

“The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . . . . . Whether you like it or not.”
― Daniel Keys Moran, The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time

“A free and open internet is vital for the freedom of expression.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Free and independent media underpin any vibrant democracy.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The future of hacking is different than a lot of​ people view it because we are all involved. Accordingly, we’ll have​ to adjust our rules and regulations and personal behaviors to live safer lives online. And we need to be smarter about what types of malicious​ hacks exist.”
― Laura S. Scherling, Ed.D., The Future of Hacking: The Rise of Cybercrime and the Fight to Keep Us Sa

“We are building AI law around what machines are allowed to say, when we should also be asking what they were allowed to consume. Until laws require every organization collecting data to clearly disclose—BEFORE COLLECTION—whether that data may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, improve, or otherwise be processed by an AI model, and require them to verify that the person supplying it has the legal right to do so, everything we write, say, create, submit, or share becomes vulnerable to uses we never knowingly agreed to.”
― Lawrence Nault