David Bromwich:

We have acquired an irrepressible eagerness to watch the lives of others. We pay to be the spectators of our own loss of privacy.

Decius:

One must assume that all garbage is monitored by the state. Anything less would be a pre-9/11 mentality.

Paul Lewis and Dominic Rushe:

The trend toward anonymity in social media has some privacy experts concerned about security.

Ajit Pai:

Hmm. A government-funded initiative is going to "assist in the preservation of open debate" by monitoring social media for "subversive propaganda" and combating what it considers to be "the diffusion of false and misleading ideas"?

Anna Sauerbrey:

The German voter-consumer will always trust the state more than he will any private company, no matter how ardently it insists on being a good guy.

Landon Fuller:

If you've upgraded to Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) and you're using the default settings, each time you start typing in Spotlight (to open an application or search for a file on your computer), your local search terms and location are sent to Apple and third parties (including Microsoft).

Craig Timberg:

Apple has chosen to not alert users when the [Yosemite] operating system itself transmits their locations, as Spotlight now does. Apple officials said that too many notifications could de-sensitize users.