Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans. — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
“The whole planet would become one big interconnected web of cameras. It was all too much to fathom, this writhing, seething mass… — Cliff Jones Jr Copy Share Image
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
“The idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I came to the United States because I valued living as a free person, one who is able to advocate in a… — Sami Al-Arian Copy Share Image
Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Wall Street is a huge issue. And it's controlling our lives today with this so-called election - we really have no choice.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Mass surveillance by the state is therefore inherently repressive, even in the unlikely case that it is not abused by vindictive officials… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
For those Muslim Chinese not in camps, Xinjiang is a surveillance state. Millions of artificial-intelligence-powered cameras use facial- and gait-recognition technologies to… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
China's leaders seek to subordinate the rights of the individual to the will of the Communist Party. They exert government control over… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be,… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
