Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long…

Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast…

— Trevor Paglen

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

— Pavel Durov

WhatsApp has a consistent history - from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes.

— Pavel Durov

“Dragnet surveillance capitalists such as Facebook, Comcast, AT&T and Google, unfortunately, supply these manipulating forces with an endless supply of metadata for this information…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty.”

— Erin Kellison

Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay…

— John Zerzan

“Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of…

— Glenn Greenwald

We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and…

— Stephen Colbert

“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone…

— Luis J. Rodríguez

“The evidence shows that assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who “have done something wrong” should provide little comfort, since a state…

— Glenn Greenwald

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…

— Barton Gellman

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses…

— Tom A. Watson

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

— Barack Obama

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion…

— Sharyl Attkisson