Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.

Executives now understand and support the deployment of more and more sophisticated protection measures. Security and privacy protection expenditures are an important concern for business executives?especially medium-to-large companies that usually rely on Oracle Database to manage their data assets. State-of-the-art security features and avoiding cross-product integration hassles [make] a compelling business case to use Oracle tools and products for security enforcement.

We take full account of two main, fundamental rights -- the right to security .... and privacy protection,

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

I think we have a tax policy that was designed before Microsoft even went public. I think we've got to change - we're at a huge disadvantage around the world.

The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.