It's becoming increasingly likely that Internet privacy legislation will get serious consideration now.

This could have a chilling effect on how people use the Internet.

There's no way any number of companies will be able to protect human rights through a business model. When things go wrong, people need a [legal] remedy. Right now we don't have that.

I think it's fair to say that, even in the absence of legislation, we've had widespread adoption of privacy practices and policies. The private sector generally has an incentive to do things in a good way.

There's long been concern about privacy on the Internet. What's different now is there is more criminal activity on the Internet.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.