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In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.

— John Sulston

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✓Similar Perspectives

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

— John Maynard Smith

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

— Curt Weldon

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

— Patrick Leahy

It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.

— Mikko Hypponen

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

— Hasan M. Elahi

It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

— Maelle Gavet

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

— Mitch Kapor

✗Opposing Perspectives

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

— Julian Assange

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

— Tim Berners-Lee