One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance…

When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are…

— Pierre Omidyar

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

“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

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

“mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.”

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“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

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