mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any…

“Surveillance cheerleaders essentially offer only one argument in defense of mass surveillance: it is only carried out to stop terrorism and keep people safe.…

— Glenn Greenwald

“mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or herself to…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Mass surveillance by the state is therefore inherently repressive, even in the unlikely case that it is not abused by vindictive officials to do…

— Glenn Greenwald

No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who…

— Glenn Greenwald

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent.…

— Glenn Greenwald

“No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

“Love and Freedom of Thoughts is a fast-acting antidote against the misanthropic cold sword of mass surveillance.”

— sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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