There isn't a whole lot of government self-regulation over privacy.

There isn't a whole lot of government self-regulation over privacy. There are some really, really good people -- the Department of Homeland Security and Commerce are the best -- but other than that there's not much.

When the vote came up the next time … they voted for metropolitan government, ... I stand here today … to say it will happen again. It will happen again sooner than most people imagine possible. You keep the faith for these kids and for our seniors.

We found that privacy is a much less mature area in government, and there is less progress to report. Fewer agencies have addressed [privacy programs] as a priority ... the security programs [are] a bit more mature [and have been] addressed over a long period of time.

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and character). And with the computer must be placed the modern scientific technical capability which exists for wholesale monitoring of telephone, cable, Telex and microwave transmissions which carry much of today's spoken and written communications. The combined use of the technical capability of listening in on all these forms of communications with the high-speed computer literally leaves no place to hide and little room for privacy.

The difficulty is that the right to privacy, ... is a right to have the government stop you from speaking about me.