When I worry about privacy I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three …

- Jonathan Zittrain

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and…

- Jonathan Zittrain

There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a nam…

- Jonathan Zittrain

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

- Jonathan Zittrain

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on oc…

- Jonathan Zittrain

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

- Jonathan Zittrain

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

- Jonathan Zittrain

When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.

- Jonathan Zittrain

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

- Jonathan Zittrain