We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The…

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation…

— Maria Julia Hernandez

We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts…

— Edward Snowden

“Government surveillance is a violation of our intrinsic right to privacy, a breach that extends beyond legal boundaries into the emotional terrain of fear…

— James William Steven Parker

People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments,…

— Edward Snowden

If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement mass surveillance…

— Edward Snowden

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a…

— Edward Snowden

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.

— Edward Snowden

When we have some horrible terrorist attacks happen in some country we see in the recording that follows, that the intelligence community already knew…

— Edward Snowden

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their…

— Edward Snowden

We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of…

— Edward Snowden

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

— Edward Snowden

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the…

— Edward Snowden

Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral…

— Edward Snowden

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

— Edward Snowden

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

— Edward Snowden