Quotes about Surveillance

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The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American wou — Frank Church
Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from — LibertasIntel
So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they’d work, whethe — Dave Eggers, The Circle
That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing — Dave Eggers, The Circle
Look, cell phone geolocation data shows very few clustering anomalies for this hour and climate. And that’s holding up p — Daniel Suarez
I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the most invisible. — Stefan D
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you — Edward Snowden
Since the 1970s, there has been a continual tendency to over-estimate the surveillance capacities of new technologies. I — David Vincent, Privacy: A Short History
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the elect — Ronald Reagan
The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and y — Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
She had to get used to her new name, The Drummer. Twelfth, and last in line, but on a good note, she had the most money, — Dayna S. Rubin, The Capital Club
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? — Cory Doctorow
You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security. — Bruce Schneier
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes dist — Edward Snowden
It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the wh — Marshall McLuhan, From Cliche To Archetype
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to moni — Barry Eisler
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to b — Mickey Rourke
Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result — Evgeny Morozov
No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused. — Edward Snowden