Compliance with regulations ... that's not a big stick, ... When companies start losing customers, that can have a very significant economic effect.

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If you start at zero, 50 percent is only 50 cents.

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[Those questions are] actually pretty annoying, ... But they're really not a major cause of privacy violations.

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[But Privacy Council CEO Larry Ponemon took a different tack in a conference call with reporters.] I feel like the lone soldier attacking the hill, ... We don't see Passport as a large privacy issue here. Quite frankly, folks, Passport itself is not creating the kinds of privacy problems that are being advanced by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) and others.

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Microsoft's P3P is not the full-blown P3P, ... Most of us thought that P3P would die. The fact that it is here and it is baked into the IE 6 browser -- I think that Microsoft should be applauded for being bold.

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We know a lot of organizations have posted privacy policies that they don't live by, ... We have to make it costly not to walk the walk. If you don't have an enforcement arm, you won't change bad players.

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[Kelly's departure comes at a critical time for the DHS, which is trying to build momentum for the TSA 's Secure Flight program, an airline passenger-screening program that's been stalled in part by significant concerns about its ability to protect consumer privacy.] It's terrible news for the DHS, ... but it's great news for GE.

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