36 Quotes by John Palfrey

Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.

On the one hand, these are important, critical issues for the future of democracy in the world, and on the other, they're thorny and unpleasant to talk about. It's a massive brewing dispute.

For too long, unscrupulous companies have made millions of dollars infecting our computers with malicious software. This is so dangerous because there are intruders in your house, but you don't know that they are in there or how they got there.

For too long, these companies have been able to hide in the shadows of the Internet. What we're after is a more accountable Internet.

Massachusetts is the canary in the mine on this issue. If Massachusetts gets this right, others will follow.

We have a whole bunch more lined up behind this one.

We do have companies in mind but we are not going to name names off the bat.

We think there's enormous value ... in giving consumers more control and giving them more information before they do something that could be damaging to their computers. The longer-term goal is we hope that these reports ... will lead the providers of applications to operate more openly and more transparently.

Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.