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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.

The American public has a right to know what's going on.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

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.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.