Noam Cohen's friend:

Privacy is serious. It is serious the moment the data gets collected, not the moment it is released.

From the archive:

If you give me money, everything's going to be cool, okay? It's gonna be cool. Give me money. No consequences, no whammies, money. Money for me ... Money for me, databases for you.

More recently:

The ship has already sailed on the question of whether or not its reasonable for the government to collect evidence about everyone all the time so that it can be used against them in court if someone accuses them of a crime or civil tort. This is just another brick in the wall.

As Data Collecting Grows, Privacy Erodes