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

— Edward Snowden

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

— Edward Snowden

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

— Edward Snowden

We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the…

— 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…

— Edward Snowden

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

— 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…

— Edward Snowden

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have…

— Edward Snowden

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet…

— 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…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Edward Snowden

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

— Edward Snowden

Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after…

— Edward Snowden

When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of…

— Edward Snowden

Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Edward Snowden