People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

Micro-targeting is the ability for a campaign to profile you, to know much more about you than you know about it, and then to choose exactly what to show you.

I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.