There is a zone of privacy that's been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court. It's in their interest that we fight the sodomy law.

Americans are still worried about rising interest rates and high gasoline prices. That, along with the lingering impact from Hurricane Katrina and ongoing political fights in Washington, seems to be holding back consumer sentiment.

We don't see it as a conflict of interest because of that.

I.T. firms still must consider that there are threats involving information security and privacy.

It's very difficult, objectively, to say how much bigger the wealth management market in London is, because of privacy. But it certainly is bigger.

Since the 1970s, there has been a continual tendency to over-estimate the surveillance capacities of new technologies. In the sense of the physical invasion of privacy, surveillance comprises five sequential events: the capacity to observe; the act of observation; comprehension of what is seen; intervention on the basis of that knowledge; and a consequent change of behaviour by the subject. Too often the final four have been assumed from the possibility of the first.